Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!gargoyle!ddsw1!karl
From: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: How to init tape marked wrong?
Summary: Init'd TK70 tape on TK50 drive, now can't re-init on TK70!
Message-ID: <457@ddsw1.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 16:07:49 GMT
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL
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Hi there,

We have a TK70 tape which was 'init'd under RSTS/E on a PDP-11 (using a
TK-50 drive).  The tape now refuses to 'initialize' under VMS, failing with
the message "Software write protect"......

How do we recover from this one?

I have tried every switch to 'initialize' that made any sense, and nothing
seems to change....
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