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From: aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: 6386 Streaming tape question
Keywords: yes, it's me again
Message-ID: <3349@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 90 22:01:01 GMT
Reply-To: aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney)
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Quick, and probably fruitless, question:

Using the regular AT&T (Wangtek-made) 125 MB Streaming Tape drive,
is there a way to write tapes at a lower density such that they can
be read by a 60 MB drive?  There is only one set of device drivers
included in the Cartridge Tape Utilities (varying by retension and
rewind only), so it doesn't look promising.  I am using CTU version
2.1, UNIX Sys V/386 Release 3.2.2.

It does *read* 60 MB tapes fine -- I used cartridge tape to copy
terminfos from an IBM RT, and it worked like a champ...

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