Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 08:16:01 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seagate 24GB DAT drive Message-ID: <199711051616.IAA10547@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 05 Nov 97 10:05:52 %2B0000. <199711051005.KAA00479@hawk.gnome.co.uk>
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>I have just got hold of a Seagate 24GB DAT drive and have come across an
>interesting problem in that it works fine for blank tapes and can read tapes
>produced on my old HP DAT but I can't write onto any of these old tapes. Even
>mt erase does not work. It seems that if there is data on the tape it looks for
>a special marker at the beginning of the tape; if it does not find it it gives
>a
>media error. Is this a problem with all Seagate DAT drives or just the 24GB
>version?
Check your manual. It's probably not reading a marker on the tape.
DAT tapes have identification holes so the drive can tell what type
and density they are. My DDS-2 drive won't write on pre-DDS-2 tapes
unless I throw a special jumper -- it will normally only read them.
Your drive is probably doing the same thing -- only reading older
lower density tapes -- and writing to only the correct (DDS-3?) tapes.
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