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Article #5138Re: Using TK50s as TK70s
From: Trevor Taylor (Graphics SIG Chai...
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1989 18:12
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1989 18:12
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In article <258@ultb.UUCP>, awpsys@ultb.UUCP (Andrew W. Potter) writes: > Has anyone succeeded in writing a TK50 on a TK70 drive? > Just out of curiosity, we took a brand new TK50 and wrote a backup saveset to it on a TK70. It worked OK. However, as a matter of principle we do not intend to use TK50s this way. I can't comment on the reliability, but using BACKUP it should be OK even with a few soft errors. What really irked us however, was that in the easly days of TK70s we could not get many and one of the operators mistakenly used a few in a TK50 drive one day. Result -- TK70s that you can no longer use except as TK50s. You cannot even re-initialise them because the "smart" drive checks the tape first and says "Oh no, this is a TK50!".
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!otc!metro!ipso!natmlab!basser!usage!csdgwy!decus!taylort From: taylort@decus.com.au (Trevor Taylor (Graphics SIG Chairman)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Using TK50s as TK70s Message-ID: <524@decus.com.au> Date: 3 Jan 89 18:12:20 GMT References: <258@ultb.UUCP> Organization: DECUS, Australian Chapter Lines: 15