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According to page 346-347 of the V4R5 System Handbook, the 6380/6480 (2.0GB) and 6381/6481 (2.5GB) drives are not capable of reading either the MLR1-16GB QIC 5010 format or the DC5010 QIC5010 format. See the following link for the Handbook: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/handbook/v4r5/5486imed.html Lane Leach i-Series 400 Systems Engineer The Kalos Group 402.334.0333 ext 333 "Charly Jones" <charly301@hotmail. To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com com> cc: Sent by: Subject: QIC tapes are always a mystery to me owner-midrange-l@mi drange.com 02/27/2001 01:25 PM Please respond to MIDRANGE-L 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 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com +--- | 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 +--- +--- | 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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