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From: dina@isieng.UUCP (Dina Street)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Qic2 tape portablity
Keywords: tape 1/4 suns ISI
Message-ID: <1252@isieng.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 89 20:55:21 GMT
References: <1077@ucrmath.UCR.EDU>
Reply-To: dina@isieng.UUCP (Dina Street)
Organization: Integrated Solutions, Inc., San Jose, CA
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In article <1077@ucrmath.UCR.EDU> minix@ucrmath.UCR.EDU (Freeman P. Pascal IV) writes:
>
>I have a Integraged Solutions Optimum V (V24s) and I'm trying to get the
>Suns at our local UC campus read/writeing my tapes.  I have the standard North-
>ern Telecom tape drive that comes with the system, it is a 9 track, QicII
>compatible 1/4" drive.  I'm not sure what our Suns are using, but I do know
>they are also QicII compatible.
>
>Does anyone out there know how to get both of these machines reading and 
>writing the same tape format?





In order to use an ISI Optimum V system to read Sun tapes, you will
need the latest revision QicII/R board and 4.3/4.1 (or later) software.
In the /dev/tape directory are a number of files which can be used to
specifiy different tape read/write formats.  What is most commonly used
to read a Sun written tape is 

/dev/tape/q11_chr_f512_0

although some experimentation might be called for.



Dina Street