How can AIX tell 1/4" cartridges apart?
Andreas Siegert
afx at ibm.de
Tue Mar 12 02:17:58 AEST 1991
olson at newmedia.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>The drive itself will refuse to write the wrong type of tape (normally
>QIC24). Now the interesting thing is that QIC120 (i.e., 600A) tapes are
>normally writable on a QIC150 drive... So what is the scoop; is IBM using
>a QIC150 only drive, or are they programming the drive to run in only
>QIC150 mode?
When reading it does not matter, but when writing you have to specify the
density with rmtx.Y where an Y >= 4 specifies QIC 120, else QIC 150 is
assumed.
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