Xref: utzoo comp.sys.hp:1282 comp.unix.questions:10375 Path: utzoo!yunexus!ists!mathieu From: mathieu@ists.yorku.ca (Pierre Mathieu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.unix.questions Subject: Pre-formatted tapes for HP drives Keywords: tape drive Message-ID: <274@istsists.ca> Date: 28 Nov 88 18:35:45 GMT Article-I.D.: istsists.274 Sender: news@istsists.ca Lines: 25 Here are a couple of questions about HP tape drives. We have an HP 9000 series 350 system running HP-UX 6.2 with an HP 9144A tape drive. Question 1) Is it possible to load tapes into this drive that are not pre-formatted and format them from HP-UX? I have tried to use (non-HP) unformatted tapes in this drive but it just went into spasms and locked up totally refusing to use these tapes (which are in every way identical to HP's except that they are not pre-formatted). Question 2) If it is not possible, then does anybody know if other companies than HP make these pre-formatted tapes? We found that at twice the price of the other tapes out there, HP prices were a little excessive. :-) Thanks in advance for any help, Pierre Mathieu mathieu@ists.yorku.ca Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science mathieu@yunexus.yorku.ca Center for Research in Exp. Space Science York University, Ontario, Canada.