18 May
2005
18 May
'05
6:49 p.m.
At 01:20 AM 5/19/05 +0100, you wrote:
Correct. FWIW The 9145 can read but not write 9144 tapes. I've given up
on the 9145s, I can never find tapes for them. FWIW2 the older HP 9142
tape drive could format it's own tapes.
BTW Does anyone know if the HP 7946s can read or write HP 9144 tapes?
IIRC they use the same tapes but I've never tried to swap tapes and the
catalog doesn't say.
Joe
I don't
know the 9144 number. If that's a QIC drive, I (and probably
It is, and it isn't :-). The tapes are the same physical dimensions as,
say, a DC300 cartridge, but the format is not one of the QIC formats. In
fact the tapes are pre-formatted by HP and can't be reformatted by the
drive.
IIRC the 9144 is a 16 track unit, the 9145 is similar but 32 track.