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Article #7677Re: Writing 60MB format tapes on QIC150 drive
From: KOMARNITSKY ALEK O
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1991 23:00
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1991 23:00
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In article <2687@brchh104.bnr.ca> wlw2286@ultb.isc.rit.edu (W.L. Lance) writes:
>The subject basically says it all. I need to exchange data with someone
>who has a QIC150 drive and I only have the standard 60 Meg drive. What
>parameters does my companion have to with tar to write 60 Meg format
>tapes.
Can't be done (at least to the best of my knowledge, but I'd love to hear
otherwise). I belive the Sun manuals discuss the subject directly, and the
table below summerizes it. Note also that QIC150 requires a different
types of media when writing "150 Meg" tapes. Be interesting to see what
happens when/if QIC525 become popular ...
"60 Meg" tapes "150 Meg" tapes
Tape-Drive Write Read Write Read
QIC24 Yes Yes No No
QIC150 No Yes Yes Yes
Alek Komarnitsky (dumb MBA student), University of Colorado
P.S. The QIC150 drives "autosense" the type of tape at read time. That's
the pause and tape noise one first hears.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: komarnit@tramp.Colorado.EDU (KOMARNITSKY ALEK O) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Writing 60MB format tapes on QIC150 drive Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <2733@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 30 Apr 91 23:00:00 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 22 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Original-Date: Sun, 28 Apr 91 16:41:46 -0600 X-Refs: Original: v10n91 X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 98, message 3 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu