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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!convex!egsner!adaptex!adaptx1!neese
  3. From: neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese)
  4. Subject: Re: gtak - scsi tape utility for os/2
  5. Organization: Adaptec Inc., Texas
  6. Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 22:12:21 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1992Nov04.221221.10853@adaptx1.UUCP>
  8. References: <8950@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
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  11. In article <8950@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
  12. > Can someone explain how to format a new tape using GTAK? The tape
  13. > utility doesn't seem to have a 'format' argument.
  14.  
  15. David, you don't format SCSI tapes.  You can ERASE them, but you do not
  16. format them.  
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  19.             Roy Neese
  20.             Adaptec Senior UNIX/SCSI Software Engineer
  21.             UUCP:    convex!egsner!adaptex!neese
  22.             Inet:    neese%adaptex@cirr.com
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