[Gooserider]

I just had those and thought I'd mention it.

Interesting you think the DDS is a fragile medium - at my former employer, we used DDS drives in the systems we built for both software delivery and backup purposes.

The systems were all telephony equipment, which meant we required 'five nines' reliability. (Odds are if you've ever dealt with a wireline or cellular telco. supplied voicemail box, you were talking to our hardware...) While the tape drives weren't as mission critical as some other parts of the systems, it still was considered a problem if they didn't work right. (As I recall they weren't a big item on our failure list either)

Gooserider