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- From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: QIC-XX tape question
- Message-ID: <251@ftms.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 15:23:36 GMT
- References: <55590003@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>
- Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout
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- In article <55590003@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> derekd@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Derek Dang) writes:
- <
- < Does anyone know whether a QIC-150 drive can be forced to write in
- <QIC-24 format? The man page indicates that QIC-24 format will be written
- <if it is detected that the tape is using that format. My question is
- <whether one can force a QIC-150 drive to write QIC-24 without having
- <a QIC-24 tape first.
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- NO! The track density is different between the two QIC types. QIC-150 can
- read QIC-24 tapes, but it cannot write it.
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