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From: wschmidt@phobix (Wolfram Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: QIC-150 <-> QIC-24
Summary: QIC-150 writing QIC-24
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Date: 17 Aug 90 22:30:51 GMT
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Reply-To: wschmidt%phobix@apatix.caed.IAO.FhG.de (Wolfram Schmidt)
Organization: Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering
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Recently i read in a Sun manual that QIC-150 drives aren't able to write
QIC-24 format.
man st(4S) says there is an error message: wrong media for writing if you
try to write on a DC-300XL-type tape. Only DC-6150 blah blah blah ...
These are 600 foot long (as of my knowledge) and good for 150 MB.
I wrote on a DC-600 tape with this drive. Since DC-600 are 600 fott length
too, the material must be different. Why does the drive write to this tape?
Data may be lost sooner or later. Drive was Archive Viper (?).

The main point of this posting is: are there any QIC-150 drives that are
capable of writing QIC-24 format (on DC-6150 or DC600 cartridges)?
I need such a beast.
Wolfram Schmidt
wschmidt@iao.fhg.de
Wolfram Schmidt   Teckstr. 11   7056 Weinstadt   Germany   +49-7151/62408   MET!