Pre-formatted tapes for HP drives

[Mike Khaw]

<1074 at statware.UUCP>, by scf at statware.UUCP (Steve Fullerton):
- In article <26007 at teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> mkhaw at teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) writes:
->> 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.
- 
- I used to purchase the 3M DC600HC tapes for use on a HP9144 on an HP1000
- and while they are pre-formatted, they are not certified.  For a 150 ft
- tape it required about 15 minutes to certify and an hour for 600 ft tapes.
- During the certification process, the system would be completely locked
- up and unusable.  I'm not sure if HP-UX requires certified tapes or
- not.  And if so, what program would be used to certify them.  I believe

Not a problem with HP-UX.  I remember the hassles with using non HP tapes
on HP-1000s.  When HP first came out with these drives, it might have made
sense to go with these "high-density" tape cartridges, but I wish they'd
join the rest of the world now and make life simpler for those of us with
heterogeneous (Unix) hardware.

Mike Khaw
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