Path: utzoo!yunexus!lethe!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: 6157-002 tape drive - is it compatible with anything? Message-ID: <1989Nov10.161919.1584@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Date: 10 Nov 89 16:19:19 GMT Article-I.D.: psuvax1.1989Nov10.161919.1584 References: <9037@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <1989Nov6.192632.9113@arnor.uucp> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Organization: Computer Science Department, Penn State University Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: uri@gondor.UUCP's message of 6 Nov 89 19:26:32 GMT In article <1989Nov6.192632.9113@arnor.uucp> uri@gondor.UUCP (Uri Blumenthal) writes: Uri> From article by luner@werewolf.CS.WISC.EDU (David L. Luner): > > 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). Uri> OK, another question from the same group (:-). Can ANYTHING in the Uri> Universe (except another RT, or another 6157-002 :-) *read* the tape Uri> written by a -002 ? Is it QIC-???, or what? Uri> Thanks to everybody who'll give the correct answer (:-). I believe that it is QIC-40. -- Dan Ehrlich "A message is not a message until the rules for interpreting it are in the hands of the receiver." --Apollo Belvedere Smith