28 May
1999
28 May
'99
7:08 a.m.
Yes, you can use those newer carts on a tk50, but once you write a header
on one, it's formatted tk50 for good. Unless you manually degauss it or
something. The tk70 can read both formats though. I guess that was DEC's
way of keeping compatibility between the two drives. (lame)
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:
Well after crossing my fingers I got 24 TK-52-K
1/2" tape cartridges in the
mail today. I've now got a reasonable amount of media for my TK70 to chew
on. These were DEC labelled tapes interestingly enough. They come with a
check box to indicate "296 MB" or "95 MB" and it appears that one can
use
them in a TK50 as well? That would be pretty cool (not that I have a TK50,
but if I did it would be cool :-) A couple of questions of course ...
1) Can use in either drive? Restrictions?
2) Is it possible to write a TK50 bootable tape on a
TK70?
Also I signed up for DECUS so that I could get the OpenVMS media, but
haven't heard back from DECUS.org, (its been a week). Are these guys slow?
--Chuck