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

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sun May 12 21:50:15 2002

Hmmm. I wasn't aware that they lacked the BOT/EOT sensors but like I said standard tapes are plentiful so why bother.

   Joe


At 01:37 PM 5/12/02 -0400, you wrote:
>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
>
>
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