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Re: DLT drive

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Sep 26 12:36:09 1996

To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU, mycroft@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:29:28 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:35:00 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>

> And what happens if there is a power failure when there is a tape in
> the drive?  This sounds like a pretty bad failure mode to me.

He did mention this, actually.  He said, "obviously, if there's a
power failure..." and then trailed off, indicating that there isn't a
whole lot we can do about that case.

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