Writing HP cartridge tapes on a Sun 3

[Jarmo Sorvari]

In article <1967 at stpstn.UUCP> aad at stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
>
>HP cartridges are indeed preformatted in some way.  Hence, you have
>to get your tapes from HP.  Pop open the window on an HP tape, and

No.  I have bought 3M tapes, run 'mediainit' on them, and used without
problems.  I am using an HP 9000/840.  3M tapes worked on our previous
9000/550, also; I think initialization was done using the command
sdfinit (?).


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