There is a switch setting (I cant recall it off-hand) that overrides the
Media Recognition Thing.
Dangerous I suppose, but it does work, and allows write to 60, 90 DDS1
tapes etc.

Neil


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denis St-Amand [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 1998 9:58 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Help W/DDS-2 Tape Drive
>
> DDS2 drives will "love" older tapes if it cant recognize it.  Those
> tapes
> MUST be wear the "Media Recognition System".  Even with old HP tapes,
> we
> got problems.  We found that only those with 4 vertical bars on them
> (||||)
> could be written in a DDS2 tape drive.
>
> Hope it helps.
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> Denis St-Amand (remove "removeit." from my reply address)
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> So, what is the problem here?  Any ideas?  Personally, I
> think it's because the DDS-2 tape drive doesn't like anything
> but 120M tapes (well, it might make an exception for a 90M
> tape).  What do you think?
>
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