We still have quite a few 7980S units here in production. I'll see if I can
find one of the manuals and look up the front panel magic. However, just
going from memory, I seem to recall that the drive senses the last recorded
density on the tape, and wants to keep using that. I'll look...
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank McConnell" <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: HP 7980S scsi 9-track
> "Fred N. van Kempen" <Fred.van.Kempen_at_microwalt.nl> wrote:
> > Does anyone have info on this beastie? I'm trying to convince it to be
> > nice to me and lock itself to 1600bpi, but it doesn't wanna play... :(
>
> CONF 46
>
> -Frank McConnell
>
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