[wellylug] Magnetic tape question

[Andrew]

On Monday, December 22, 2003, at 08:12  am, Peter Jones wrote:

> DLT cartridges are 105mm square and contain a single reel of 1/2" tape.
> (Very similar to IBM 3480 but much greater data capacity).
>
> The only checking method that I am aware of would be to load the tape
> into the DLT 1 drive and see if they can be written to. At present 
> they will
> load okay, but the backup program* says they are write protected
> (which they are not, write protection on a DLT cartridge is by moving
> a slide on the cartridge case.) Because they show as write protected,
> it is not possible to try and over-write / erase / format them
> *tried Veritas and W2Ks native backup program
>
> OTOH if you have an eraser I would like to try that if possible.
> Peter

We have a DLT tape drive on a Mac a work - that may be able to format 
them as it wouldn't recognise the format anyway.
Want to try?

Andrew
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