Jean-Luc Wasmer writes:

>No. The coating formulation is different.

Maybe.  Perhaps the tape will last a bit longer then.  In my
experience, if you write to a DDS2 tape more than 4-5 times,
you'll get tape errors.  And the recording technology is the
same (the diagonal stuff is rather error prone, imho.)

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