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<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
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"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
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02/27/01 02:25 PM
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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
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