bdale@col.hp.com (Bdale Garbee) (03/10/91)
> In my experience, there should be no problem writing on a "60MB" cartridge > but you will actually be writing in QIC-150 format. I'm interested enough in the real answer as to whether the CSC drives will behave acceptably with 60mb tapes that I'm tempted to buy one and try it. Does anyone have any *real* information about this specific drive's behavior to offer? Or is the experiment, costly at quantity one drive pricing, worth doing? My HP9000/350 at home talks SCSI CCS tape, so would be a good test. Bdale
agodwin@acorn.co.uk (Adrian Godwin) (03/12/91)
In article <9103100603.AA07359@hpcsbg.col.hp.com> bdale@col.hp.com (Bdale Garbee) writes: >I'm interested enough in the real answer as to whether the CSC drives will >behave acceptably with 60mb tapes that I'm tempted to buy one and try it. >Does anyone have any *real* information about this specific drive's behavior >to offer? Or is the experiment, costly at quantity one drive pricing, worth >doing? My HP9000/350 at home talks SCSI CCS tape, so would be a good test. > >Bdale The stuff I posted came from Archive's product manual - you'll have to buy one to find out if it's accurate ! In case that posting got lost, here's the meat of it again : Feature Specification 2060S 2125S Capacity 60 Mb 125 Mb (formatted, using 600ft tape cartridge) Track format 9-track serpentine 15-track serpentine Flux density 10,000 ftpi 12,500 ftpi Data density 8,000 bpi 10,000 bpi Avg. transfer rate 90 kB/sec 112.5 kB/sec Burst transfer rate, 1.25Mb/sec 1.25MB/sec max Recording format QIC-24 QIC-120 Read compatibility QIC-24 QIC-24 The spec says : 2060S ANSI X3B5/85-138 3M DC600A read/write QIC24 ANSI BSR X3.127 3M DC300XL read/write QIC24 2125S ANSI X3B5/85-138 3M DC600A read/write QIC120 read only QIC24 ANSI BSR X3.127 3M DC300XL read only QIC24 -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Godwin (agodwin@acorn.co.uk)