Subject: Re: CompacTape III in TK70
To: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polderland.nl>
From: Michael Kukat <michael@unixiron.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/28/2002 12:07:02
Hi !
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Olaf Seibert wrote:
> Once I put a CompacTape I (for TK50) in a DLT drive. It fit and appeared
> to work at first, but the tape leader takeup thingie inside the drive
> got loose and we had to call service. I just told them I put in an
> apparently bad tape so we got it fixed with no further trouble (apart
> from the annoyance).
This seems to depend on the drive. TZ87 is DLT-III, and is officially backwards
compatible to TK50 and TK70. You can insert and read those tapes there without
any problems.
...Michael
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