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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!warwick!cudep
  2. From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: QIC-XX tape question
  5. Message-ID: <9m4mbxdj@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 22 Jul 92 11:39:00 GMT
  7. References: <55590003@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> <1992Jul21.023909.6655@kpc.com>
  8. Sender: news@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Network news)
  9. Organization: Team Limpid's Meathead With Aptitude - Kunst und Wahnsinn
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  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: limpid
  12.  
  13. In article <1992Jul21.023909.6655@kpc.com> mjacob@kpc.COM (Matt Jacob) writes:
  14. >|>     Does anyone know whether a QIC-150 drive can be forced to write in 
  15. >|> QIC-24 format?
  16. >No. Be glad it even *reads* QIC-24 or 9trk QIC-11.
  17.  
  18. I am.
  19.  
  20. How come SGI get their QIC-150 drive to write QIC-24 as well?
  21. (Or is this an exaggerated rumour?)
  22.  
  23. >QIC-150 is 18 tracks, and QIC-120 (which the Viper silently
  24. >uses if the tape is a DC600A) is 15 tracks.
  25.  
  26. Hmm.
  27.  
  28. Cheers,
  29. -- 
  30. \/ato - Ian Dickinson - NIC handle: ID17                              Yo! Bum 
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