150 Mb Archive Viper can't write 60 Mb tapes???

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <212 at twg.UUCP> bill at twg.UUCP (Bill Irwin) writes:
>The sould of this when I heard it was so absurd I just had to ask the net
>right  away.   We are just installing an Archive Viper 150Mb  tape  drive
>into  an i386 running SCO UNIX (current release).  One of the technicians
>said  that  it could read 60Mb tapes produced on a 60Mb streamer, but  it
>couldn't produce tapes that could be read by the 60Mb.

This is true for most, if not all of the high density tape drives, reguardless
of the manufacturer.  The highest density drive that I know of, that will still
write 60 MB tapes are the 120MB drives.


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