Odd PDP-11 tape related question

From: Nico de Jong <nico_at_farumdata.dk>
Date: Fri Jan 16 01:01:52 2004

> Nitpick warning!
>
> That was me, but what I actually said was that most DDS1 drives won't
> load a DDS2 tape. I can't remember the "official" name of the feature,
> but almost all 4mm drives do media-format detection, and will just spit
> out a tape larger than they rate for. I do recall that the DEC
> firmware doesn't do that, but I'm still fairly sure it won't work.
>
>
I've seen a similar "feature" with Exabyte Eliant 820 drives. They will spit
out 8200-generated tapes, unless they are write protected.
HP DDS2-drives (at least the ones I have seen) will spit out all tapes(e.g.
90 m metal) _unless_ they have media recognition.

Nico
Received on Fri Jan 16 2004 - 01:01:52 GMT