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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: QIC-XX tape question
- Message-ID: <nme8olo@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <55590003@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> <1992Jul21.023909.6655@kpc.com> <9m4mbxdj@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 07:05:21 GMT
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- In <9m4mbxdj@csv.warwick.ac.uk> cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson) writes:
- | 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.
- |
- | I am.
- |
- | How come SGI get their QIC-150 drive to write QIC-24 as well?
- | (Or is this an exaggerated rumour?)
-
- It is definitely an exaggerated rumor. I have never seen a QIC-150
- drive that can *write* (as opposed to read) QIC-24. Track width
- differences are just too great. SGI does sell the 2060S as well
- as the 2150S, and the 2060S is a QIC-24 drive; perhaps that is
- where the confusion arose?
-
- Most of the future QIC drives (525, 1000, 1350, 2100) are still
- spec'ed to read back to QIC-24, and to write back to QIC-150
- (maybe QIC-120 even), but none I've heard about will write
- QIC-24 format.
-
- As somebody else noted, 600A tapes can be written on most brands
- of QIC-150 drives, but they are written in QIC-120 format, not
- QIC-24.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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