16 Jan
2004
16 Jan
'04
1:01 a.m.
Nitpick warning!
That was me, but what I actually said was that most DDS1 drives won't
load a DDS2 tape. I can't remember the "official" name of the feature,
but almost all 4mm drives do media-format detection, and will just spit
out a tape larger than they rate for. I do recall that the DEC
firmware doesn't do that, but I'm still fairly sure it won't work.
I've seen a similar "feature" with Exabyte Eliant 820 drives. They
will spit
out 8200-generated tapes, unless they are write protected.
HP DDS2-drives (at least the ones I have seen) will spit out all tapes(e.g.
90 m metal) _unless_ they have media recognition.
Nico