Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!norsk From: norsk@sequent.UUCP (Doug Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: What's the most common SCSI Tape format? Message-ID: <56394@sequent.UUCP> Date: 28 Mar 91 22:31:22 GMT References: <21411@shlump.nac.dec.com> Reply-To: norsk@eng3.UUCP (Doug Thompson) Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 89 In article ascott@fws214.intel.com writes: >I also looked at some of the documentation that came with our Sparc2 >tape drive yesterday. It said that their 150MB drive could only write >in QIC-150 mode (using 18 tracks), but could read either QIC-150 or >Sun's older 9-track format (I'm not sure what QIC-format this was.) > >Hope this helps, >Andy Scott > >Cartridge Info: > >Maynard Maynard >Part # Model # 3M Part # Media Specifications Capacity >_______ ________ _________ ______________________________ _________ >90507 6250 DC6250 Read/Write QIC-150 and QIC-120 250MB > Read QIC-24 > >90504 6150 DC6150 Read/Write QIC-150 and QIC-120 150MB > Read-only QIC-11 and QIC-24 > > DC600A Read/Write QIC-120 125MB > Read-only QIC-11 and QIC-24 > > DC300XLP Read QIC-11 and QIC-24 45MB All the cartridges are downward compatible in terms of writing. IE, take a DC6150 cartridge and it can R/W in QIC120 and QIC24 in the repective tape drives. I don't know the numbers with QIC-11 density ------------------------------------------ | Cartridge ------------------------------------------ |Type | Length | Density | Capacity | | Feet | | (MB) ------------------------------------------ DC300XLP 450 QIC-24 45 ------------------------------------------ DC615A 150 QIC-24 15 QIC-120 30 QIC-150 NA QIC-525 NA ---------------------------------------- DC600A 600 QIC-24 60 QIC-120 120 QIC-150 NA QIC-525 NA ---------------------------------------- DC6037 150 QIC-24 15 QIC-120 30 QIC-150 37 QIC-525 NA ---------------------------------------- DC6150 600 QIC-24 60 QIC-120 120 QIC-150 150 QIC-525 NA ---------------------------------------- DC6250 1000 QIC-24 100 QIC-120 200 QIC-150 250 QIC-525 NA ---------------------------------------- DC6080 150 QIC-24 15 QIC-120 30 QIC-150 37 QIC-525 80 ---------------------------------------- DC6320 600 QIC-24 60 QIC-120 120 QIC-150 150 QIC-525 320 ---------------------------------------- DC6525 1000 QIC-24 100 QIC-120 200 QIC-150 250 QIC-525 525 I know is some sort of DC6xxxx cartridge for QIC-1000 that runs about 1000 feet and hold over 1GB, but thats all I know -- Douglas Thompson UUCP: ..{tektronix,ogicse,uunet}!sequent!norsk Internet: norsk@sequent.com "The scientist builds to learn; the engineer learns in order to build." Fred Brooks