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February 1999, Week 3

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Re: DDS3 and 60m tapes
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Rick Gilligan <[log in to unmask]>
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Rick Gilligan <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 19 Feb 1999 07:06:06 GMT
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In article <[log in to unmask]>,
John Lee  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>We're trying to write some small files to 60 meter tapes on our DDS3 DAT
>drives, but the drives don't want to write to them.  Is anyone having
>success doing this?  Thanks.

Are they MRS tapes (MRS logo... the parallel vertical hash marks on the
shell)?

If not, there's a switch on the bottom of the drive which enables writing
to non-MRS tapes.  Search the 3000-L archives for the past few years nd
there should have been a few messages telling you which switches to set.

--
Rick Gilligan
Senior Software Specialist
Computer And Software Enterprises, Inc.
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

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