[rescue] DLT tape drive.

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 09:19:18PM -0800, bran tregare wrote:
> does anyone know of you put the wrong tape in a DLT drive if it'll just 
> barf CRC errors?  I have a DLT2000 drive and it used DLT III or DLT IIIXT 
> tapes, the only tape I have for it is a DLT IV which from what I gather 
> isn't supported :(  (not i know at least) when I attemted to label the tape 
> it didn't even seem to try to do anything, just immediately came back with 
> a CRC error :(

Wont work.  Needs DLT III/IIIXT.

(there's special tracking/encoding, etc, on the tape itself)

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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