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From: lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Writing HP cartridge tapes on a Sun 3
Summary: cant run mediainit on 9144 drive
Keywords: HP SUN QIC
Message-ID: <509@vedge.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 88 22:17:33 GMT
References: <614@ednor.UUCP> <63050@sun.uucp> <1967@stpstn.UUCP> <151@karhu.tut.FI>
Reply-To: lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai)
Organization: Visual Edge Software, St. Laurent, PQ
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In article <151@karhu.tut.FI> jarmo@tut.FI (Jarmo Sorvari) writes:
>
>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 (?).

When I pop a regular 3M tape into the 9144 drive (HP9000/300), it cranks
a while then the 'fault' lite appears.  I can't get it to do anything
with mediainit.

(Actaully my problem is using non-preformatted tapes for the HP)  Is there
a way of formatting them?
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