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From: izen@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Prof. Steven H. Izen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Writing Low Density Tapes from a Personal Iris
Message-ID: <5375@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 28 Mar 90 05:50:54 GMT
References: <23482@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: izen@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Prof. Steven H. Izen)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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In article <23482@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> hohmeyer@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Michael E. Hohmeyer) writes:
>
>	I need to be able to transfer files from a personal
>iris to a GT via tape. Unfortunately the personal iris writes
>high density that the GT cannot read. A friend tells me that there
>is a way to write low density tapes. Does anyone know how to 
>do this?

Yeah, it's easy.  When I bought my personal IRIS, I ordered the 60 meg tape
option instead of the 150meg tape option.  That gave me two 2 way 
communications with my 386 unix box.


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