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From: panisset@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Jean-Francois Panisset )
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.sys.sgi
Subject: QIC-24 to QIC-150
Summary: how do I "reformat"
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.124823.11846@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 12:48:23 GMT
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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I have some tapes which were written to by a QIC-24 tape drive. Now, these
tapes are "high-density" (12500 ftpi), and I would now like to re-use them
in a QIC-150 drive. Unfortunately, the drive detects that these tapes were
written to at low density, and thus refuses to write to them. So my question
is: what is the best way to force a QIC-150 drive to write to such a tape,
or do I have no choice but to use a powerful magnet? For reference, I
am using a Personnal Iris under IRIX 3.3.2.


Thanks in advance,
JF Panisset
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