[comp.misc] 3M Blackwatch Magtapes

bill@videovax.Tek.COM (William K. McFadden) (03/19/87)

A couple of weeks ago a series of articles were posted on the problems people
were having with Blackwatch tapes.  I didn't think anything of it until a
friend of mine who is a computer operator said he had been having trouble
making system backups because of tape write errors.  I said, "You aren't using
3M Blackwatch tapes, are you?"  And he said, "How did you know?"  His problem
is to convince his superiors that the tapes are bad.  I told him I would print
out all the relevant articles from comp.misc to help him corroborate his story,
only to find out that they had already expired on our system.

So my question to the net is, is there someone who has archived these articles
and would be willing to e-mail them to me?  Or perhaps the original authors
of the articles could e-mail a description of their problems with these tapes.
My friend would be very grateful.  Thanks.
-- 
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ken@rochester.ARPA (Ken Yap) (03/20/87)

If you mail a description of your problems with Blackwatch and various
tapes why not cc a copy to me? I volunteered to collect reviews of
tapes but so far have only 4 responses. I will post the results to the
net. Something like this suggested format, perhaps. But send me your
war stories.

	Manufacturer:
	Brand:
	Size:
	Density:
	Usage (daily backup, weekly, etc):
	Rating (out of 10):
	Comments:

And mention if you want your name kept out of the sumamry. Thanks in advance.

	Ken
	ken@cs.rochester.edu (ken@rochester.arpa)
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