Advice on change of tape drive please.

[Benson I. Margulies]

In article <1990Nov24.124017.11376 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>In article <OPERATOR.90Nov20104952 at expya.cs.exeter.ac.uk> operator at cs.exeter.ac.uk (Sue Charles) writes:
>>In the new year we will be installing a QIC-150 drive.
>>Which (if any) of the above tapes would I still be able to use
>>read ,read/write.
>
>You will be able to use the DC600A tapes.  Depending upon which device
>you used to write them (/dev/rst8 writes in QIC-24 format, if I remember 
>correctly) you should be able to read them on the new drive.
>
>If you erase the DC600A, you will also be able to use it for writing on 
>the QIC-150 drive.  The output will be written in QIC120 format (which 
>will give you 120MB per tape).
>


Not all tape drives seems to support QIC120 format. Not all tape
drives give write errors when writing tapes on the DC600A if they
don't support QIC120. I am not at all certain about the ARCHIVE VIPER
150 on my solbourne, or the wangtek. Best to perform read tests.

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Benson I. Margulies