16 Jul
1998
16 Jul
'98
10:10 a.m.
Christian Fandt <cfandt(a)servtech.com> wrote:
Aha! Now I can connect QIC36/QIC02.... My HP 250 uses
DC600 type tape carts.
Don't be too sure of that. If it's a 9144 drive or one integrated in
a 79xx disc drive, it uses tapes that are mechanically the same but
with a completely different format called HCD that predates the QIC
formats and cannot be completely recorded in the field. THe format
involves full-width block markers that can't be recorded by the heads
in the drives.
Bob Niland used to post something about this over in comp.sys.hp.*
when someone popped the question. Go do a search in DejaNews for
author rjn(a)csn.net in comp.sys.hp.hardware looking for the keywords
QIC and HCD and you will probably turn it up.
-Frank McConnell