RE: Tape Drive Compatibility

["Cotes, Steven" <cotess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sannan,

Is the tape you are using a 160 meter ?
Your 7208 won't even try it.
The max it will recognize is a 112.

 - HTH,
 - steve cotes
 - cotess@data-io.com

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> From:         Sannan Solberg[SMTP:SSolberg@Washcorp.com]
> Sent:         Friday, December 18, 1998 12:09 PM
> To:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      Tape Drive Compatibility
> 
> I'm in a quandry...  I have a tape device that comes up as a 9348.  I
> have
> another tape device on the same 400 that is a IBM 7208-002.  I am want
> to
> write a tape on the 9348 and read it on the 7208. (Don't ask why, its
> just a
> test for a real move from one 400 to another).   I am INZTAPing the
> tape on
> the 9348 as *FMT2GB.  When I try to DSPTAP on the 7208, all I get is a
> message "cannot process volume".  I've made sure the physical tape is
> fine
> and have written/read to each drive individually.  (SAVLIB'S, not
> compressed
> or compacted, if that matters).
> 
> Am I missing something or is this just not possible.  Help???
> 
> 
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