[rescue] Exabyte 8500 questions

[Dave McGuire]

On July 26, dave at cca.org wrote:
> >There is one thing that is making me nervous,
> >though. The drive only seems to make tape
> >drive type noises at the beginning and end
> >of the dump. The rest of the time it is
> >virtually silent. By tape drive type noises,
> >I mean the "whirrrrrrp... grind-grind-grind"
> >that I am used to from PeeCee cartridge drives
> >and Archive 1/4" drives I have used in
> >the past. Are 8500s (and possibly other 8mm
> >drives) supposed to be this quiet?
> 
> DAT drives suck the tape in and wrap it around a 
> spinning drum that has the heads on it. Pulling the
> tape in, and returning it later, makes a lot of noise.
> Once it's in place, streaming it around the drum is
> very quiet.

  Yup, 8mm drives (Exabytes) do it the exact same way.

      -Dave

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