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From: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Pre-formatted tapes for HP drives
Keywords: tape drive
Message-ID: <1456@zen.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 88 13:34:49 GMT
References: <274@istsists.ca> <469@mmlai.UUCP>
Reply-To: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England
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In article <469@mmlai.UUCP> burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Anthony Burzio) writes:
>In article <274@istsists.ca>, mathieu@ists.yorku.ca (Pierre Mathieu) writes:
>> Question 1) Is it possible to load tapes into this drive that
>> 	    are not pre-formatted and format them from HP-UX?
>Not possible.  HP uses a backwards file system.

Pardon! I'm sorry but HP uses the same file system as Berkely (HP call it HFS).
If your referring to the ancient SDF (Structured Directory Format); this was
implemented on the HP9000 series 500 (RIP) to allow access between HP-UX and
BASIC file systems on the same disk.

			vic
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