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Article #121Re: Reading/Writing foreign QIC formats !@#$?
From: Jamie Watson
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1989 09:22
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1989 09:22
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In article <12656@well.UUCP> gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart) writes: >I have been told that the IBM format is not compatible with any of >the QIC formats - can this be? While this is not exactly true, it does highlight one of the stupidest mistakes that IBM has made on the RT. They released a new tape drive recently, called the 6157-002. This drive can *read* QIC-11, QIC-24 and QIC-150 (I think that's right - the high density 150Mb format). But it can ONLY write QIC-150! This means that systems with the new tape drive are incompatible with RTs that have the old tape drive - it is absolutely impossible to write a tape on the new drive and read it on an old one. Then, to top it off, they dropped the old drive from the price list, so you can't buy it any more even if you want to! Thus they are saying that you either have to buy incompatible systems, or just give up buying RTs altogether. Sigh. jw
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!pan!jw From: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Reading/Writing foreign QIC formats !@#$? Keywords: Tape compatibility Sun AIX RT Message-ID: <548@pan.UUCP> Date: 14 Jul 89 09:22:05 GMT References: <12656@well.UUCP> Reply-To: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) Distribution: comp Organization: Adasoft AG, Solothurn, Switzerland Lines: 17