Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!motown!vilya!lcuxlm!whuts!att!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!mcgill-vision!odyssee!iros1!vedge!lai 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 Lines: 17 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? -- "What is a DJ if he can't scratch?" - Uncle Jamms Army The views expressed are those of the author, and not of Visual Edge, nor Usenet. David Lai (vedge!lai@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu || ...watmath!onfcanim!vedge!lai)