On 2/15/16 2:32 AM, Christian Corti wrote:
I've added another picture of a closeup of the R/W head. In my opinion
it's a 9 track read-after-write head. The geometry and gaps are
identical to those of the adjacent 7970B 800bpi-only tape drive we have.
I have two
7/9 track HP drives, and a bunch of head stacks. There is no
erase head. The 7 and 9 track head stacks sit next to each other. I may
have time to dig them out and take pictures at some point this month.