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Re: DDS3 <-> DDS2
From:
Neil Harvey <[log in to unmask]>
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Neil Harvey <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 1 Oct 1998 05:08:15 +0200
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True.
Also, with the right switch settings, DDS3 drives (and DDS2 drives) can
read and write DDS1 DAT's.

Neil


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Widmar [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 1998 1:40 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      DDS3 <-> DDS2
>
> Oh wise and depthful vat of HP3000 (& -related) knowledge:
>
> Rumour (am I british? I mean 'rumor') has it that DDS3 drives can read
> DDS2
> tapes and if a DDS2 tape is in the drive when a DDS3 drive is writing
> to that
> drive, the DDS2 tape can then be read by some other DDS2 drive.
>
> All of this with no software or hardware config, just using the
> correct tape.
>
> Truth?
>
> TIA,
> Steve

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