Are old SCSI tape drives not all created equal?

[Phil Blundell]

On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 16:59 -0500, js at cimmeri.com wrote:
> Hi, Chuck.  Excellent question -- and they do respond per your minimum, but beyond that, I'm not sure.

What device type do they report to IDENTIFY?  There were some early tape
drives which presented as direct-access (not sequential-access, which
was more conventional for tape drives) and could be used as though they
were extremely slow hard disks.

p.