Re: (fwd) Re: 7208 questions

[Pat Barber <MBOCEANSIDE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Goodbar, Loyd (AFS-Water Valley) wrote:
> 
> It's a 7208-002. The 400 found it as that device also. I tried formatting a
> tape at *FMT5GB but the device formatted it at 2GB. I suspect (but can't
> confirm yet) that it won't read 5GB tapes.

Loyd:

That drive can only read somthing created at a lower level... It does
in fact use 2.5 gig tapes but will save up to 5gig using hardware
compression.... Most IBM drives will read anything equal to or lower
than the drive it was created on....since there wasn't anything prior to
that model, that's the ball game....
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