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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
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Subject: Re: What type of tape does an Archive 150 MB SCSI Drive use?
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Date: 1 May 89 15:22:55 GMT
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in article <1942@csuna.csun.edu>, abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl) says:

> The streaming tape drive is an Archive 150MB SCSI.  I tried RTFM, and it
> specifies some QIC standard (don't remember it exactly).  I don't know
> anything about QIC.  Does this drive take DC-300 or DC-600 tapes?  DC-300
> tapes fit, but don't read/write properly.  I don't have any DC-600, but

The Archive 2150S Viper drive can read four different formats 
from a pre-written tape:
QIC-11	four track	20MB
QIC-24	nine track	60MB
QIC-120	twelve track	125MB
QIC-150	eighteen track	150MB

It cannot write QIC-11 nor QIC-24.

It will decide on a default write format, which could be overridden,
based on the cartridge it detects, according to the spacing 
of the BOT hole set.
DC-300		can't write the default of QIC-24.
DC-600A		default is QIC-120, 125MB
DC-600XTD	recent name change to DC615
		default QIC-150, 150MB.

You can use DC600A with no problem, it just gives 125 instead of 150MB.
DC-600XTD / DC-615 are still a little scarce.

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