Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!enea!tut!jarmo From: jarmo@tut.FI (Jarmo Sorvari) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Writing HP cartridge tapes on a Sun 3 Keywords: HP SUN QIC Message-ID: <151@karhu.tut.FI> Date: 13 Aug 88 13:02:10 GMT References: <614@ednor.UUCP> <63050@sun.uucp> <1967@stpstn.UUCP> Reply-To: jarmo@tut.FI (Jarmo Sorvari) Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland Lines: 16 In article <1967@stpstn.UUCP> aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes: > >HP cartridges are indeed preformatted in some way. Hence, you have >to get your tapes from HP. Pop open the window on an HP tape, and No. I have bought 3M tapes, run 'mediainit' on them, and used without problems. I am using an HP 9000/840. 3M tapes worked on our previous 9000/550, also; I think initialization was done using the command sdfinit (?). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! Jarmo Sorvari Control Engineering Laboratory ! ! jarmo@tut.fi Tampere University of Technology ! --------------------------------------- BOX 527, 33101 Tampere, Finland -----