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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
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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 (?).


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