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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Advice on change of tape drive please.
Message-ID: <1990Dec03.032705.8215@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 3 Dec 90 03:27:05 GMT
References: <OPERATOR.90Nov20104952@expya.cs.exeter.ac.uk> <1990Nov24.124017.11376@virtech.uucp>
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In article <1990Nov24.124017.11376@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>
>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).

I haven't seen anyone else mention this before but it does match my experience
and I wonder if it is the real source of the problems that are being brought
up about using these drives with DC600A's.   I had a lot of trouble re-using
old 3b2 32Meg formatted tapes until I started doing a couple of erase passes
on them first.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us