|
<rant on> IBM has tried it's best to confuse us on QIC drives. First of all they tried color coding. Grey button = 120, Blue=525MB. Then they actually started printing the size on the door. That got to be too friendly and not sexy enough so they started changing from a size on the door to some strange model designator. Meanwhile, for several releases of OS they had WRKHDWRSC and I think STRSST set to return the same model for a QIC regardless of the actual physical model. The goal was to run up costs for them because then they had to send out a service person to figure out what model of tape drive instead of being told that from Service Director. I think they've seen the error of this last folly. <rant off> Do you have something printed on the door of the tape drive? If so, what is it? WRKHDWRSC TYPE(*STG) Look for 'Tape Controller' or 'Storage Controller' then take option 9 to work with resource. Once you've done this, what is the Type-model? Then if you press F1 for help on INZTAP for the DENSITY parameter you might get lucky and see a match. I wasn't at our company. From From front Suggested WRKHDWRSC of drive DENSITY for INZTAP 6381 2GB *QIC2GB 6386 MLR3 (Isn't probably limited to *CTGTYPE or *DEVTYPE. that sexy and informative?) = 25gb Rob Berendt ================== Remember the Cole! "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 02/27/01 02:25 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 +---
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact [javascript protected email address].
Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.