2 Oct
2002
2 Oct
'02
3:21 a.m.
We still have quite a few 7980S units here in production. I'll see if I can
find one of the manuals and look up the front panel magic. However, just
going from memory, I seem to recall that the drive senses the last recorded
density on the tape, and wants to keep using that. I'll look...
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank McConnell" <fmc(a)reanimators.org>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: HP 7980S scsi 9-track
"Fred N. van Kempen"
<Fred.van.Kempen(a)microwalt.nl> wrote:
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Does anyone have info on this beastie? I'm
trying to convince it to be
nice to me and lock itself to 1600bpi, but it doesn't wanna play... :(
CONF 46
-Frank McConnell