13 Feb
2002
13 Feb
'02
10:53 p.m.
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I've never seen that with either 4mm DDS-x or with 8mm DAT formats.
We do classroom loads of RS/6000s from tape quite often, making
tapes on, and installing from, a very wide assortment of drives. I've
never seen a load fail if the drive was rated for the tape format.
Doc
There are
currently 5 DAT formats (DDS, DDS-1, DDS-2, DDS-3, and DDS-4)
and all are backward compatible.
But, can a drive from manufacturer "A" read a DDS-1 tape written on
manufacturer "B's" drive? It's been my understanding that sometimes
even
different model drives from the same manufacturer can't read the same tape.