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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Pre-formatted tapes for HP drives
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Date: 30 Nov 88 18:17:22 GMT
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<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.

> Question 2) If it is not possible, then does anybody know if other
> 	    companies than HP make these pre-formatted tapes? We

3M makes them.  They are DC600HC tapes.

Mike Khaw
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