I had an HP DDS-2 drive that was from a bad batch. Even though HP recalled those, mine went bad after it was 3 years old, and they wouldn't replace it, or even fix it for a fee. HP is not my friend. > -----Original Message----- > From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [mailto:chrome at real-time.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 9:04 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: VXA tape drives (was:Re: [TCLUG] Burners) > > > > What vendors of drives? Anyhow, if your going to get a > drive, hp has > > onsite service for pretty cheap 3yr contracts. > > the Sony DDS-4 drive that I've used hasn't shown any issues. > the Seagate one > is the flaky unit. I'm pretty sure that the Seagate AIT-1 > drives were just > Sonys with a different name on them; so for the moment I'm > guessing the > DDS-4 drives are pretty much identical except for the name on them. :) > > I've seen a couple of HP drives go bad... one was a DDS-2, > that was about > 3-4 years old, I think. the other is a DDS-3 which still > works; but might be > showing more 'soft' error messages when writing than it used to. > > Carl Soderstrom > -- > Network Engineer > Real-Time Enterprises > (952) 943-8700 > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >