More stuff to go...

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Monday 01 September 2008, Tom Peters wrote:
> At 06:21 PM 9/1/2008 -0400, you wrote:
> >I also have boxes upon boxes of (used and degaussed) DLT-4 media. 
> > I'd like to get about $1/tape for that.
>
> With the servo track erased by degaussing, aren't they doorstops? My
> understanding was that there is a timing track written at
> manufacture, and it can't be put back with a standard tape drive.
>
> Inquiring minds want to know.

Not on DLT.  DLT is serpentine, and without any servo track.  SuperDLT 
has an "optical" servo track, so it's also safe to degauss.

In fact, to write to DLT media in at a different density than it was 
recorded at (eg, DLT4000 vs 7000 vs 8000), you have to degauss it 
first.

Pat
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