In a recent note, Eric N. Bielefeld said: > Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:28:00 -0500 > > I think the newer tape drives probably fail a lot less on DISP=MOD. I > noticed that when we went from 3420 to 3480 tapes, and again when we > converted to 3490s. I'm sure the 3590s are even better. > Was the cause ever analyzed? It would have to be something like false detection of a file trailer label, implausible as that seems to me. Hard problem to re-create.
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