TK50 tapes for "free"

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Mon Nov 6 16:16:18 2000

At 06:40 PM 11/6/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>If a tape is used in the TK70 for writing - which means that the TK50 will
>not be able to read the data - is it still possible to put the tape in a TK50
>drive and start using it as a TK50 tape? Namely, does the TK50 drive
>object to using a tape that has been written upon in a TK70 drive?

Once written by a TK70 it stays that way until its bulk erased. I was told
that just inserting a blank tape into the drive would cause it to write a
"header" that identified it as a TKxx tape. This I don't know but I have
done the experiment you propose and the only way to get the TK50 to talk to
it was to bulk erase it.

--Chuck
Received on Mon Nov 06 2000 - 16:16:18 GMT

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