Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!uunet!odi!benson From: benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Advice on change of tape drive please. Message-ID: <1990Nov26.123048.21002@odi.com> Date: 26 Nov 90 12:30:48 GMT References: <1990Nov24.124017.11376@virtech.uucp> Reply-To: benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) Organization: Object Design Inc., Burlington, MA Lines: 23 In article <1990Nov24.124017.11376@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes: >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). > Not all tape drives seems to support QIC120 format. Not all tape drives give write errors when writing tapes on the DC600A if they don't support QIC120. I am not at all certain about the ARCHIVE VIPER 150 on my solbourne, or the wangtek. Best to perform read tests. -- Benson I. Margulies