Xref: utzoo comp.sys.hp:1318 comp.unix.questions:10542 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!nic.MR.NET!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!stc!praxis!hilbert!sfr From: sfr@praxis.co.uk (Stephen Rickaby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Pre-formatted tapes for HP drives Summary: Don't use non-formatted tapes ... Message-ID: <3453@newton.praxis.co.uk> Date: 6 Dec 88 13:42:13 GMT References: <274@istsists.ca> <26007@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> Sender: news@praxis.co.uk Reply-To: sfr@praxis.co.uk (Stephen Rickaby) Followup-To: comp.sys.hp Organization: Praxis Systems plc, Bath, UK Lines: 26 In article <26007@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) writes: ><274@istsists.ca>, by mathieu@ists.yorku.ca (Pierre Mathieu): >> Question 1) Is it possible to load tapes into this drive that >> are not pre-formatted and format them from HP-UX? > >Not that I know of; in fact, if you write onto a pre-formatted tape >from a non-HP drive (e.g., a Sun) you destroy the formatted track(s?) >and can no longer use the tape in the HP drive. Can't remember which HP drives you are talking about, but I once loaded a DC600 which had been bulk erased into a 7914 on an A900. It was spectacular. The tape whizzed about a bit while to controller looked at it, then there was a long pause for thought, then the drive hung, hanging the disc (shared HPIB controller) *and* the CPU. (Users of A-eries machines will know that system crashes are *rare*, as opposed to some operating system :-) ...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Rickaby | ,,, Praxis Systems plc | < O_O > 20 Manvers Street, Bath, BA1 1PX, UK | ==( . )== Tel: +44 225 444700 Tx: 445848 PRAXIS G | Prrrouwf, Wackwacka sfr%praxis.uuc@ukc.ac.uk | !mcvax!ukc!praxis!sfr | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pascal is a blase, but Modula-2 is wirth its weight in gold.