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- From: shahryar@crc.ricoh.com (Shahryar G. Hashemi)
- Subject: Exabyte 8200 --> 8500 tape conversion...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.015623.666@crc.ricoh.com>
- Organization: RICOH California Research Center
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 01:56:23 GMT
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- Dear all,
-
- I am intending to buy an Exabyte 8500 [5 Gig 8mm] tape drive. I
- wsa curious to know how I can format my current 8200 tapes [2.2 Gig
- 8mm] be reformated as 8500 tapes. I taked to Exabyte and they said
- that their tape drive reads both formats but they did not tell me
- how to reformat the tapes to be written in the higher capacity.
- Can anyone help me??
-
- Shahryar
-
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- Shahryar G. Hashemi
- System/Network Administrator -- RICOH Corporation California Research Center
- 2882 Sand Hill Road, Suite 115 Telephone: (415) 496-5730
- Menlo Park, CA 94025-7022 FAX: (415) 854-8740
- E-Mail: <shahryar@crc.ricoh.com>
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