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- From: timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu)
- Subject: Re: Average # of bad blocks on 3M DC2120 tapes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.032332.26236@ico.isc.com>
- Keywords: tapes, tapes streamer, bad blocks
- Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
- References: <5096@svin09.info.win.tue.nl>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:23:32 GMT
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- In article <5096@svin09.info.win.tue.nl> perry@win.tue.nl writes:
- >
- >Hello,
- >
- >I'm using 3M tapes (DC2120) and I get on some of my tapes a number of
- >bad blocks. Since I'm having trouble with placing a tape steamer in
- >my system (386-33DX cache), which is probably a timing problem, I'm
- >formatting my tapes slightly (;-) more than once. The number of bad
- >blocks on my tape increases with the times it is formatted. What I
- >want to know is (assuming the used tapes are 3M):
- > * how many bad blocks do DC2120 tapes contain when formatted
- > for the first time?
- > * is it "allowed" to format a tape more than once? (this compared
- > to ordinary 3M 3 1/2 disks).
- >
- >Please reply by e-mail if you have some useful information on this
- >toppic. Thanks in advance,
- >
- >Perry Egelmeers
-
- Maybe you should bulk erase the tapes before you format them again.
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