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- From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
- Subject: Re: how to write 525MB to Wangtek 525ES on Dell 2.1?
- Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:05:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bt7114.8oz@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
- References: <rvdp.713829991@yam> <Bt2ozK.FI@flatlin.ka.sub.org> <Bt3Grx.8rH@chinet.chi.il.us>
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- In <Bt3Grx.8rH@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:
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- >In article <Bt2ozK.FI@flatlin.ka.sub.org> bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) writes:
- >>There is no way for a QIC drive to figure out the media type on a
- >>blank tape.
-
- > Oh, foo. Don't be silly. You buy non-blank tapes?
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- No, but I write some blocks on a 150 Meg drive.
-
- > The drives use various methods, including measuring the spacing
- > between the holes around BOT.
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- Doug Pintar told me the same.
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- I finally found a reference to that behaviour in the docs to an 60MB
- Archive drive. I haven't seen that mentioned in the Tandberg TDC3800
- docs. If someone has has this behaviour documented I'd would love to
- know.
-
- Well, I guess the TDC3800 I tested it on had a firmware bug.
- --
- Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org
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- ISO? Nicht immer, aber immer M-vfter.
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