On 2001.12.10 00:13 Jerome Fine wrote:
Memorex used to have a web site that listed all the
properties of
DECTape (i.e. I for the TK50 with the name in brown)
DECtape is _not_ the TK[57]0.
TK[57]0 is called CompacTape I (TK50) or
II (TK70). My information is based on
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/Hardware/Machines/DEC/vax/tk50.html#tk5…
and there is written:
Once you erase a TK50 you can use it in a TK70 drive and vice
versa, but the TK50 and TK70 tape material is different, and
the write current of the TK70 drive is different (lower). This
is not recommended, and should be used for temporary storage for
which you will suffer no pain if lost.
(b) The controller must have a buffer of some kind
which holds the
next block of data automatically.
Yes. The TQK70 has some additional buffer that
can speed up things
considerably. I
experienced that when I reinstalled 2.11BSD UNIX on my PDP11/73...