Pre-formatted tapes for HP drives
Mike Khaw
mkhaw at teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA
Thu Dec 1 04:17:22 AEST 1988
<274 at istsists.ca>, by mathieu at ists.yorku.ca (Pierre Mathieu):
> Question 1) Is it possible to load tapes into this drive that
> are not pre-formatted and format them from HP-UX?
Not that I know of; in fact, if you write onto a pre-formatted tape
from a non-HP drive (e.g., a Sun) you destroy the formatted track(s?)
and can no longer use the tape in the HP drive.
> Question 2) If it is not possible, then does anybody know if other
> companies than HP make these pre-formatted tapes? We
3M makes them. They are DC600HC tapes.
Mike Khaw
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