QIC-24 to QIC-150

[Jim Levie]

panisset at thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Jean-Francois Panisset ) writes:

>I have some tapes which were written to by a QIC-24 tape drive. Now, these
>tapes are "high-density" (12500 ftpi), and I would now like to re-use them
>in a QIC-150 drive. Unfortunately, the drive detects that these tapes were
>written to at low density, and thus refuses to write to them. So my question
>is: what is the best way to force a QIC-150 drive to write to such a tape,
>or do I have no choice but to use a powerful magnet? For reference, I
>am using a Personnal Iris under IRIX 3.3.2.


>Thanks in advance,
>JF Panisset
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>Jean-Francois Panisset                    
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Uhh, I don't think this is at all possible, the Q150 drives that I
have cannot write to Q24 tapes at all. The docs that I have indicate
that the drive senses the type of cartridge from "physical information
recorded on the tape", I suppose they meant the pattern and/or
placement of the holes in the tape. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable
could provide more details.

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