[wellylug] Magnetic tape question

[Peter Jones]

Thanks for the offer - I can send you a couple to try. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Klenner [mailto:colink at clear.net.nz]
Sent: Monday, 22 December 2003 8:17 p.m.
To: Wellington Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Magnetic tape question


I have a DLT unit at home. It takes DLT IV tapes so depending on what
you have I could have a go for you.

Colin ph 04 388 3835 Miramar evenings

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 06:47, Andrew wrote:
> 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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> http://zrx.homeip.net/index.html
-- 
Colin Klenner <colink at shortboy.workgroup.home>


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