Ditto.  At my last job I had just gotten a new system with a DDS2
drive in it and was having a ton of trouble with a bunch of my tapes.
I thought I had a bunch of bad tapes but come to find out it did not
have the MRS (aka 4-bar) symbol on it.  Thank goodness my brilliant
HP CE saw what I was doing and let me know about the difference.
Some of the tapes I had were not even DDS tape they were DAT tapes.
Needless to say those went into the circular filing cabinet very
quickly.

Good Luck,

Barry Durand


On 27 Jan 00, at 12:04, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> At 11:14 AM 01/27/2000 -0500, Bob Schlosser wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >         I would like to stick my $.02 in here. I just tested a DDS1 (60m)
> > tape
> >         in our DDS3 tape drive and was able to store to it just fine. It is a
> >         HP tape and is marked as a DDS1 data cartridge and the tape drive
> > is the
> >         same model asked about (HPC1537A).
>
> I have had the same experiences being able to write to DDS-1 tapes.
>
> I have also had a number of tapes that I have concluded had the "Media
> Recognition System" data on the tape trashed.  These tapes gave the same
> write not enabled symptom.  MRS is a rocker switch option on the tape
> drive. You can disable it if you want although I chose not to do so (I
> trashed the tapes instead).
>
> Brian Duncombe  [log in to unmask]  http://www.triolet.com
> voice: 1-877-TRIOLET (874-6538) (905)632-2773 fax: (905) 632-8704
> "Inside every large program is a small one struggling to get out"
> C.A.R. Hoare
>


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