List of interesting stuff was RE: Time to share a source - W.J.Ford Surplus

From: Vassilis Prevelakis <vp_at_mcs.drexel.edu>
Date: Sun May 12 12:37:59 2002

Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> The 88140xC tapes are used a number of HP tape drives and also in
> some combination hard drive/tape drive units. They should be useable
> in non-HP machines but they'd have to be reformatted (and
> non-formatted tapes are plentiful so why boather).

I think not, these tapes lack BOT and EOT markers as the drive can tell from the
soft sector information where it is on the tape. If you repeatedly mount an
HP tape on a normal QIC drive, it will eventually unspool it as it tries to
find the BOT marker.

**vp
Received on Sun May 12 2002 - 12:37:59 BST