24 Mar
2015
24 Mar
'15
3:59 a.m.
On 2015-03-23 20:53, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 03/23/2015 06:38 PM, Roe Peterson wrote:
Actually, with DDS tapes, you can generally write one gen back and read
two. So, a DDS3 drive can read DDS1 and write DDS2.
It really depends. Not all HP DDS3 drives will read DDS1--or so HP
claims.
So, it's still best to check beforehand. Or do what I do--keep a mess
of DDS drives of as many kinds as you need. Nowadays, nobody wants
the older ones much, so they can be had fairly inexpensively.
Not every DDS1 drive can read every DDS1 tape. Not every DDS1 tape can
be read in a different specimen of the same model drive as which it was
written in.
I liked 4mm DDS1 tapes for installing software on my PDP-11, but that's
about it.
Zane