Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!virtech!cpcahil From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Advice on change of tape drive please. Message-ID: <1990Nov24.124017.11376@virtech.uucp> Date: 24 Nov 90 12:40:17 GMT References: Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA Lines: 24 In article operator@cs.exeter.ac.uk (Sue Charles) writes: >In the new year we will be installing a QIC-150 drive. >Which (if any) of the above tapes would I still be able to use >read ,read/write. You will be able to use the DC600A tapes. Depending upon which device you used to write them (/dev/rst8 writes in QIC-24 format, if I remember correctly) you should be able to read them on the new drive. If you erase the DC600A, you will also be able to use it for writing on the QIC-150 drive. The output will be written in QIC120 format (which will give you 120MB per tape). >Or is it a case of scrapping the lot! and using the new 150mbytes >data tapes. If you are going to buy some new tapes, but DC6250s which will store 250MB in QIC-150 format (longer tape) -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc., uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170