[Gllug] Cant enable DMA

[Martin A. Brooks]

t.clarke wrote:
> I have to say that I have found DAT tapes to be pretty reliable.
> We generally verify the tape against the disc files after backing up and have
> not found discrepancies between the tape contents and the source disc.
> DAT drives ARE expensive compared with CD/DVD burners,  but in my view more
> reliable.

Do you read the tapes in a different drive?  I know of one company who 
religiously backed up using DAT.  And then found their backups were 
unreadable in another drive, after the original drive had been destroyed.

Mart.

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