[geeks] A bad month for tape

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>Date: 2007/07/01 Sun PM 02:15:28 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] A bad month for tape

>On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 03:07:18PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
>> all the LTO listings say either "as is" or "not tested" or "powers up"
>> or "removed from a working system", no-one will actually commit to
>> saying "This drive works".  
>
>If they said anything more, no one would bid on it.

I think it has to do with any/all of the following:

They don't know how to test it
They tested it and it doesn't work
They have no idea where to get a tape
They have no idea how to interface it to a computer to test it

Lionel