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From: luner@werewolf.CS.WISC.EDU (David L. Luner)
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Subject: Re: Can 6157-002 tape drive be forced t
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Date: 3 Nov 89 23:12:38 GMT
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In article <213600004@s.cs.uiuc.edu> silver@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>Re: 6157-002 tape drives being slow
>
>As far as reading -001 tapes on a -002, I'd like to answer to that
>if anyone ever discovers one.

If I recall correctly, and I'll check tonight, a -002 *can* read tapes 
written by a -001, but not the other way around. (And there is no way
to make a -002 write tapes in such a way that a -001 can read them).

	-- David