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).

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