Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!sgi!shinobu!odin!anchor!olson From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Advice on change of tape drive please. Message-ID: <1990Nov30.234230.1100@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 30 Nov 90 23:42:30 GMT References: <1990Nov24.124017.11376@virtech.uucp> <1990Nov26.123048.21002@odi.com> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA Lines: 25 In <1990Nov26.123048.21002@odi.com> benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) writes: | In article <1990Nov24.124017.11376@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes: | >In article operator@cs.exeter.ac.uk (Sue Charles) writes: | > | >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. The Archive Viper 150 definitely reads all 3 of QIC24, 120, and 150. In addition, it writes QIC120, and QIC150. Detection of cartridge and type type is automatic. -- Dave Olson Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.