6 Nov
2000
6 Nov
'00
8:16 a.m.
At 06:40 PM 11/6/2000 -0500, you wrote:
If a tape is used in the TK70 for writing - which means
that the TK50 will
not be able to read the data - is it still possible to put the tape in a TK50
drive and start using it as a TK50 tape? Namely, does the TK50 drive
object to using a tape that has been written upon in a TK70 drive?
Once written by a TK70 it stays that way until its bulk erased. I was told
that just inserting a blank tape into the drive would cause it to write a
"header" that identified it as a TKxx tape. This I don't know but I have
done the experiment you propose and the only way to get the TK50 to talk to
it was to bulk erase it.
--Chuck