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Article #355Re: Cartridge tape questions
From: Simon Poole
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1989 22:03
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1989 22:03
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In article <9633@june.cs.washington.edu> witold@june.cs.washington.edu (Witold Paluszynski) writes: ..... [complaining that you can't write 60MB cartridges in a 150MB drive] >What I would expect is the sort of upwards compatibility as with >9 track tapes, where even the newest drives can write 800 bpi tapes. You must be joking, to be able to write 800 bpi with a new drive, you generally have to go and buy an expensive trispeed tape. The 800 bpi format is completly incompatible with the one for 1600/6250 bpi. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simon Poole poole@verw.switch.ch/poole@chx400.switch.ch/mcvax!cernvax!chx400!poole ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!poole From: poole@chx400.switch.ch (Simon Poole) Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Cartridge tape questions Keywords: QIC tape cartridge Message-ID: <1989Oct30.220321.25394@chx400.switch.ch> Date: 30 Oct 89 22:03:21 GMT References: <169@iquery.UUCP> <9633@june.cs.washington.edu> Reply-To: poole@chx400.switch.ch (Simon Poole) Organization: SWITCH Zuerich, Switzerland Lines: 15