Size of Tapes
Joern Baier
baier at hal.fmi.uni-passau.de
Thu May 9 04:16:16 AEST 1991
Hi!
How can I calculate the size of a cartridge tape?
We have a lot of 3M-tapes which are labeled as follows:
DC600A; 600 feet; 12,500 ftpi; 550 oersted tape;
I think it is not a 150M tape but it works fine with our 150M tape device.
Only once it complained that it wanted another sort of tape:
Apr 28 11:28:30 hal vmunix: st0: wrong tape for writing, use DC6150
tape (or equivalent)
But this message has never appeared again after a reboot.
So far there haven't been any problems when I tried to restore files which
I dumped to the tape.
Should I go on using those old DC600A tapes or should I try to get some DC6150
tapes? Has anyone negative experiences with DC600A-tapes on a 150M-device?
Joern
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Joern Baier (baier at unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de)
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D-W-8390 Passau
Tel.: +49/851/35239
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