Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!uwvax!tank!nic.MR.NET!xanth!mcnc!decvax!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!dclemans.falcon From: dclemans.falcon@mntgfx.mentor.com (Dave Clemans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: vt100; ctape info Message-ID: <1988Dec5.084853.2928@mntgfx.mentor.com> Date: 5 Dec 88 16:48:51 GMT References: <18300001@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon Lines: 12 > 2. Cartridge tapes. I have a user who needs to read formatted > catridge tapes on the Apollo. The tapes are format type > HCD-75 (according to 3M). The tape is formatted in 64k > 1024 byte blocks (which makes sense, it is a 600 foot tape). > Because this is a formatted tape, no normal Apollo utility > (rwmt, rbak, even cptape) can read the tape; they fault out > with an error (i/o error on block 0; - read no data). My understanding is that Apollo's use QIC-24 formatted cartridge tapes. dgc