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It depends on tape drive implementation. Non-IBM tape drives have to mimick themselves as one of supported IBM tapes - or system will not reconize them. In original note down below Exabyte tape was configured to OS/400 as 3422 model A01. 3422 is a 1/2 inch reel-to-reel drive. OS/400 thinks it's working with 3422 (not with 8mm), so from its point of view this tape can possibly support only densities like 1600/3200/6250. This has nothing to do with densities 8mm drives work with. So you are stuck with density *DEVD, which means, accept whatever density device itself uses. Best regards Alexei Pytel Chuck Lewis <clewis@iquest.net> on 12/08/99 08:43:07 AM Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com cc: Subject: Re: Tape Density Question Is this JUST for Exabyte Alexei ? Chuck pytel@us.ibm.com wrote: > Exabyte tapes usually mimick themselves as some other type (non-8mm) on > AS/400, so you cannot control density from OS/400 commands. > You have to use DENSITY(*DEVD), which will use whatever was set on device > itself. > If you want to change density, do it from device control panel. > > Best regards > Alexei Pytel > > Howard Weatherly <hweatherly@dlis.dla.mil> on 12/02/99 12:58:21 PM > > Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > cc: > Subject: Re: Tape Density Question > > For Exabyte we have the device defined as 3422 model A01. Exactly how we > arrived at > those has escaped me but I suspect that that is what the manual said or > what tech > support said. In looking at the descriptions, I cannot tell where the *DEVD > parm is? > but by its name it is refering back to the device type (Resource Name) and > Model > number, so if you can get ahold of someone perhaps there is another > device/model that > might yield higher speeds? > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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