Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!tgould.doc!dme From: dme@doc.ic.ac.uk (Dave Edmondson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Moving data from RS 6000 to RT 125 via tape. Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 90 04:23:32 GMT References: <807@meaddata.mead.UUCP> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Systems Support, Department of Computing, Imperial College Lines: 19 In-reply-to: brad@mead.UUCP's message of 27 Jun 90 17:18:20 GMT In article <807@meaddata.mead.UUCP> brad@mead.UUCP (Brad Craig) writes: brad> [... trouble writing tapes ...] this is from memory - so may be wrong (!). the rs/6000 can read/write qic150, and can read qic24. the rt will (almost certainly) not read qic150. i talked to someone at ibm about this quite a while ago and the answer was `they are expected to be on a network'. if this is the case, then you can move stuff from rt to rs/6000, but not the other way. anyone from ibm (or elsewhere) care to correct me here ? dave. -- Dave Edmondson Department of Computing, Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 1BZ UK phone: 071-589-5111 x5085 fax: 071-581-8024 dme@doc.ic.ac.uk, ..!ukc!icdoc!dme, dme@athena.mit.edu