| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
A friend of mine has been copying his hard disc to viedo tape.
He tells me his program tells him his error rate and it has
been higher than he would like. He believes the problem lies
in the tape, he's using Maxell HGX. Has anyone out there gone
through the various tapes and come up with a winner?
Thanks Bill
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| 2082.1 | LEDS::ACCIARDI | Man Dies Laughing - Film at 11:00 | Fri Jan 06 1989 08:25 | 16 | |
A long time ago in a company far, far away, we looked real hard
at using industrial VCRs as gigabyte backup devices. After some
mucking about, the read/write engineer concluded that the dropout
rate of commercial videotape was far too high to use as a backup
medium without some very complex error correction strategy. The
implementation of error correction was easy; the problem was in
getting a VCR to perform fast start/stops and backhitches (retrys).
Since the human eye can fill in a tremendous amount of bad information,
you don't notice dropouts (or drop-ins).
Corvus Systems did (does?) make a system. I don't recall what kind
of interface they use(d).
Ed.
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| 2082.2 | SCSI VHS Backup | DPDMAI::ANDERSONA | Fri Jan 06 1989 12:43 | 9 | |
I just had one of my customers install a VHS tape backup drive on
his 11750. All I know about it is that it uses the small VHS tapes
he claimed that he could purchase tapes from K-Mart so they shouldn't
be anything special. The unibus interface was a Unibus to SCSI
bus adapter. I can call him and find out more details if you are
interestead.
Alan
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| 2082.3 | Tape brand? | GENRAL::NAUGHTON | Fri Jan 06 1989 18:51 | 5 | |
re.2
Thanks Alan. If you get a chance ask him if he has any better
luck with any certain brand tape.
Thanks again Bill
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| 2082.4 | Sorry it took so long. | DPDMAI::ANDERSONA | This space for rent | Sat Oct 14 1989 22:46 | 6 |
He has had a lot of trouble with this drive. It was replaced 3 times
for various problems and right now thay are looking into a microcode
problem on the unibus interface. When it works he liked it. He is
using Maxwell tapes.
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