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- From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: QIC-XX tape question
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.174927.6721@ukw.uucp>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 17:49:27 GMT
- References: <55590003@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> <1992Jul21.023909.6655@kpc.com> <Brru39.9MI@sparky.ocs.com>
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- jim@sparky.ocs.com (Jim Muth) writes:
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- >In article <1992Jul21.023909.6655@kpc.com>, mjacob@kpc.COM (Matt Jacob)
- >writes:
- >> |> Does anyone know whether a QIC-150 drive can be forced to write in
- >> |> QIC-24 format?
- >>
- >>
- >> No. Be glad it even *reads* QIC-24 or 9trk QIC-11.
- >> QIC-150 is 18 tracks, and QIC-120 (which the Viper silently
- >> uses if the tape is a DC600A) is 15 tracks.
-
- >So THAT's what the 150 MB Archive does when I feed it a DC600A...I've always
- >wondered. Question is, is it safe to cram 15 tracks onto a DC600A?
-
- From my Archive Viper manual:
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- Unrecorded cartridge specifications for Viper 2150S
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- Tape Spec. Qualified Tape Function
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- ANSI X3B5/87-165 DC600XTD Read/Write (QIC-150)
- Read/Write (QIC-120)
- Read only (QIC-24)
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- ANSI X3B5/85-138 3M DC600A Read/Write (QIC-120)
- Read only (QIC-24)
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- ANSI BSR X3.127 3M DC300XLP Read only (QIC-24)
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