Cartridge tape questions

[Simon Poole]

In article <9633 at june.cs.washington.edu> witold at june.cs.washington.edu (Witold Paluszynski) writes:
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[complaining that you can't write 60MB cartridges in a 150MB drive]
>What I would expect is the sort of upwards compatibility as with
>9 track tapes, where even the newest drives can write 800 bpi tapes.
You must be joking, to be able to write 800 bpi with a new drive,
you generally have to go and buy an expensive trispeed tape. The 800
bpi format is completly incompatible with the one for 1600/6250 bpi.
 

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