Subject: Re: Hmmm...
To: Tom Guptill <tgpt@pas.rochester.edu>
From: James Willing <jimw@agora.rdrop.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/05/1997 20:44:57
At 08:11 AM 11/5/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 04, 1997 at 05:52:30AM -0800, Rick Copeland wrote:
>> 
>> I have a boot tape and my CPU has two tape drives (TU58's) on it, if I
could
>> figure out how to copy from one to the other I could make boot tapes
(need a
>> good source for blank tapes as well)
>
>Aren't the TU58's tapes simply standard QIC tapes like the ones that the
>floppy-controlled x86 tape drives used to use?  If so, I can probably track
>down a bunch of them.

Sorry, no.  They have a propritary format on them that the standard drive
can not recreate.

-jim

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