On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 06:15:20 -0500, Jeff Woods <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>At 05:11 PM 6-29-98 EDT, Andrew Popay wrote:
>>Can anyone tell me if there is a way of enabling the DDS2 & DDS3 drives
to
>>write in DDS1 format.
>
>The only thing needed to make a DDS-2 or DDS-3 drive write in DDS-1 format
>is to use 90m or shorter media.  The higher density formats are only used
>on the correspondingly new media formats.

<snip>

I beg to disagree with you.  We have a DDS-2 drive (1583) that absolutely 
will not write to 60M tapes, regardless of what type of markings (four 
vertical bars or other MRS-type markings) are on them, or whether 
compression is enabled or disabled.  Believe me, I have tried.  And tried. 
And tried.

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