On April 2, Yubyub bird wrote:
> A quick tape question - I've got an exabyte 8500 connected to one of my
> ss5 boxes, and the drive keeps rejecting the tapes I feed it.  Does anyone
> know what kind of tapes to feed these guys?  I have a bunch of sony
> qc-112m tapes, which I thought would be right.
> 
> I actually just upgraded the firmware on the unit; it used to take the
> tapes before, and generated tons of media errors under 1.4.1; now it
> simply refuses the tapes.

  Not sure what qc-112m tapes are...but I've always used sony qg-112m
tapes in my 8500s with no problems.  Might be worth looking up the
specs and finding the differences between the two kinds of tapes.

               -Dave McGuire