From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 19 04:48:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA26097 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 04:48:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA26092 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 04:48:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.muc.ditec.de (gw.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.3]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id EAA25799 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 04:47:54 -0800 Received: from tartufo.muc.ditec.de (tartufo.muc.ditec.de [134.98.18.2]) by gw.muc.ditec.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA10164; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:45:03 +0100 Received: by tartufo.muc.ditec.de (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.16.1 #16.39) id ; Tue, 19 Mar 96 13:47 MET Message-Id: From: me@tartufo.muc.ditec.de (Michael Elbel) Subject: Re: HP 35480A help needed To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:47:41 +0100 (MET) Cc: me@gw.muc.ditec.de, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603191231.AA17286@Sisyphos> from "Stefan Esser" at Mar 19, 96 01:31:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > } Since the HP35480A is a DDS-1 drive, it won't read/write 120 meter tapes. > } You need a HP C1533A for that. I've not managed to write 60 and 90 meter > } tapes on one of these under FreeBSD though although it *should* work. > > My HP C1533A reads and writes 90m tapes just fine ... > Very interesting. I can read old 60 and 90m tapes fine. As soon as I try to write to one of them, I get: Mar 19 13:43:17 wiley /kernel: st0(ahc0:4:0): DATA PROTECT asc:30,0 Incompatible medium installed Michael -- Michael Elbel, DITEC, Muenchen, Germany - me@muc.ditec.de Fermentation fault (coors dumped)