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[Chuck Guzis]

On 28 Feb 2008 at 12:01, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> Including modern technologies like AIT.  I've never had any problem (or 
> at least any problem I didn't see coming...) with DLT, Ultrium, sDLT, 
> Magstar, 3490E or 3480.

We were approached by Datasonix to endorse their Pereos drive.  
Apparently, one of their marketing people, in his eagerness to clinch 
a sale, had told a customer that we'd already approved it and sold 
them 150 of the things.  After I went over the specs with their 
technical guy and told him that there was no way were were going to 
endorse a 2mm helical-scan drive without write verification and a 
driver that required more than 100K of memory, I got a pep talk from 
the CEO.  He insisted on sending me a couple of the drives with full 
access to their engineering staff.

I got one good backup out of the thing after many tries.  After a 
week of wasting my time, I boxed the things up and sent them back.  I 
think I still have the software, if anyone's looking for it.

They're probably collector's items now--and likely in the "vintage" 
category.  Tiny little tape drive that ran on AA batteries with 
postage-stamp-sized carts claiming to hold 1GB each.

Cheers,
Chuck