HP 7980S scsi 9-track

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Tue Oct 1 21:53:00 2002

"Fred N. van Kempen" <Fred.van.Kempen_at_microwalt.nl> writes about
the HP 7980S 9-track tape drive:
> Does anyone have info on this beastie?

Yes. It's basically the same as the 88780. I've got the user and
service manuals somewhere.

> I'm trying to convince it to be
> nice to me and lock itself to 1600bpi, but it doesn't wanna play... :(

You can only tell it what density to use when writing. It autodetects
for reading, and AFAIK there is no way to override that.
Received on Tue Oct 01 2002 - 21:53:00 BST