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In article <524@decus.com.au> taylort@decus.com.au (Trevor Taylor (Graphics SIG Chairman)) writes:
=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. 
=
=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!".

Bulk erase the tape and try again :-)

It takes a reasonably good bulk eraser to get the tape, but if you succeed,
you've got a truly "blank" tape again.   It appears that what the drive is
checking is the volume header on the initialized tape.  

(Disclaimer:  It works for us, no idea what it'll do for you.)

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