using 60 Mbye tapes in 150 Mbyte drive

[Robert Claeson]

In a recent article ballen at csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Bruce Allen) writes:

>I have a SparcStation with a 150Mbyte desktop tape drive unit.  This unit
>is supposed to be used with DC6150 1/4 inch tape cartridges, of which I
>have a reasonable supply.  I also have large numbers of DC600, DC300, and
>DC450 tapes from my old Sun 3/60.  These tapes are fairly useless to me
>now ... or so I thought.  

I have had good experiences using old DC600A cartridges with a QIC-150
tape drive. However, I am not able to use any of the DC300A, DC300XL or
DC300XL/P tapes.

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