QIC tapes are always a mystery to me

["Charly Jones" <charly301@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Seems to me that whenever I have a QIC tape in my hand the tape drive on the 
machine in front of me won't read _that_ particular tape...

So the other day, I was trying to make a tape for a machine that I think has 
a 2 gigabyte drive.  I tried 4 different tapes with various cryptic 
manufacturer's labels on them, initializing each one with DENSITY(*CTGTYPE) 
in order to discover what density the media was.  All were greater than 2GB. 
  So I dug around in the media cabinet and finally found a tape that is 
manufactured by IBM and it says "MLR1 2GB" and also that it is 2GB 
uncompressed and 4GB compressed.  Eureka! I have it, I thought to myself.

Since the media was known to be 2GB, I did my INZTAP with DENSITY(*QIC2GB).  
It initailized to *QIC5010 with a warning message something to the effect 
that it had done me a favor.

I wasn't able to figure out from the help text what *QIC5010 is, and I was 
frustrated and out of time, so I went ahead and saved my stuff.  I am hoping 
I will be able to restore to a 2GB QIC drive.  Does anyone know for sure?

Thanks for your help,

Charly Jones
Geezer in Gig Harbor

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