Kennedy 9600 9-track w/DQ132 on mVAX-II??

Chuck Guzis wrote: You might try using 800bpi tapes as well as a simple test (or blank might work, since this isn't a Cipher). The reason is that 1600 and 3200 tapes have a PE burst at the beginning of the tape that causes the formatted interface to put out a bit of nonsense when starting up that is not there when you use the 800BPI tape, which is NRZI and has no such detect burst. I don't have the specifics, but did run into such a problem with 800 vs 1600 on a Microdata system formatted tape interface eons ago. I know that the problems of the Microdata interface probably were unique to that system, but think it is worth mentioning. I did see problems on other systems when using a blank tape vs recorded, and I suspected it was the lack of the PE burst that caused them, due to the way the system worked. That was in using the drives with Overland controllers. Jim