Tracy,

I just stuck a DDS II hardware compressed tape into our old DDS
drive.  It just sat and looked at me from beneath the CD I haven't
figured out what to do with yet.  No messages, nada.

I said well that isn't what it used to do, so I got a different tape
and mounted it.  The drive just spit it back out, again no messages.
Now that's what it used to do.  I'm fresh out of suggestions.
jt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tracy Johnson [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 1998 3:08 PM
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> Subject:      S/R 6188 Update
>
> O.K. guys,
>
> I took this tape to another machine on MPE/iX 5.5 and attempted to
> RESTORE one file as a test.  The file RESTOREd just fine.  (The previous
> machine was on 5.0.)
>
> That seems to indicate something with my machine is wrong or different
> than where it came from.
>
> The tape drive "could" be screwed up, but I've been able to read tapes
> from other HP3000s.
>
> I suspect either an MPE 5.5 vs 5.0 difference or more strongly that
> hardware compression was used by default.  Can anyone confirm that this is
> the kind of error you get when attemping to RESTORE a hardware compressed
> tape on an older DDS that does not have hardware compression?
>
> It also means all the previous answers I got from you all were wild
> goosechases.  Save maybe the one about "adding PH" (I'm still not sure
> about that one yet.)