abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl) (04/30/89)
I know this is a stupid question, bear with me please... Where I work (not CSUN), we just got a Motorola Delta 3600 in house. The streaming tape drive is an Archive 150MB SCSI. I tried RTFM, and it specifies some QIC standard (don't remember it exactly). I don't know anything about QIC. Does this drive take DC-300 or DC-600 tapes? DC-300 tapes fit, but don't read/write properly. I don't have any DC-600, but they look like the right form factor. The company bought this beast through a middleman (who has been worse than useless), so calling the vendor is kind of difficult. Any info would be appreciated, respond by E-mail, and thanks for bearing with my dumb question. Scott . -- Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl UUCP: ...!sm.unisys.com!csun!csuna.csun.edu!abcscnge -- unless explicitly stated above, this article not for use by rec.humor.funny -- Disclaimers? We don't need no stinking disclaimers!!!
dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) (05/01/89)
in article <1942@csuna.csun.edu>, abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl) says: > The streaming tape drive is an Archive 150MB SCSI. I tried RTFM, and it > specifies some QIC standard (don't remember it exactly). I don't know > anything about QIC. Does this drive take DC-300 or DC-600 tapes? DC-300 > tapes fit, but don't read/write properly. I don't have any DC-600, but The Archive 2150S Viper drive can read four different formats from a pre-written tape: QIC-11 four track 20MB QIC-24 nine track 60MB QIC-120 twelve track 125MB QIC-150 eighteen track 150MB It cannot write QIC-11 nor QIC-24. It will decide on a default write format, which could be overridden, based on the cartridge it detects, according to the spacing of the BOT hole set. DC-300 can't write the default of QIC-24. DC-600A default is QIC-120, 125MB DC-600XTD recent name change to DC615 default QIC-150, 150MB. You can use DC600A with no problem, it just gives 125 instead of 150MB. DC-600XTD / DC-615 are still a little scarce. -- --- Clarence A Dold - dold@tsmiti.Convergent.COM (408) 434-5293 ...pyramid!ctnews!tsmiti!dold P.O.Box 6685, San Jose, CA 95150-6685 MS#10-007