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From: Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: whats a good external SCSI tape?
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:15:37 GMT
Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:

>Tandberg 2.5 GB QIC are fine (the latter is for those like me who find
>helical scan to be inherently horrible :).
It seems many  people dislike helical scan backup units, but I never
could figure out why: we've sold tons of them, even to customers
working in harsh environments (Sahara desert), and never got returns,
while we got back several Archive streamers returns 

Could you explain why this dislike ?
Thanks

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   Frederic G. MARAND
  Agorus SA / OSI SARL
Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr
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