| Title: | Ask the Storage Architecture Group |
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| Moderator: | SSAG::TERZA N |
| Created: | Wed Oct 15 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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The TZ88 Sales Update article says CompacTapeIV has 20GB native capacity. The TZ89 Sales Update article says Compac/DLTapeIV has 35GB native capacity. Are these in fact two different pieces of media? The TZ89 Sales Update article says it provides full data interchange capabilities to the Tx85, Tx86, and Tx87 subsystems, but is not compatible with older tape formats, such as the TZ30, TK50, and TK70 products. It says nothing about TZ88. I gather a TZ87 cannot uses anything bigger than a CompacTapeIII. Can a bigger cartridge even be inserted? If you try could it screw up the drive?
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| 6675.1 | Some answers.. | SUBSYS::TRAN | Straight <Left> Hitter.. | Fri May 09 1997 12:07 | 23 |
The TZ88 Sales Update article says CompacTapeIV has 20GB native capacity. The
TZ89 Sales Update article says Compac/DLTapeIV has 35GB native capacity. Are
these in fact two different pieces of media?
> That is accurate. With TZ88 format the C-IV has native capacity of
> 20GB. With TZ89 format, it is 35GB.
The TZ89 Sales Update article says it provides full data interchange
capabilities to the Tx85, Tx86, and Tx87 subsystems, but is not compatible with
older tape formats, such as the TZ30, TK50, and TK70 products. It says nothing
about TZ88.
> TZ89 will write/read TZ88 format when selected. Of course, TZ88 will
> not able to read TZ89 format media eventhough it's a C-IV.\
I gather a TZ87 cannot uses anything bigger than a CompacTapeIII. Can a bigger
cartridge even be inserted? If you try could it screw up the drive?
> It'll take and spin up cartridge but when you try to access it,
> you'll get an error which states that wrong media type is installed.
>T.
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| 6675.2 | DECWET::ONO | Software doesn't break-it comes broken | Fri May 09 1997 13:16 | 3 | |
Will a TZ87 work with a III-XT tape? Wes | |||||
| 6675.3 | Not on TZ87.. | SUBSYS::TRAN | Straight <Left> Hitter.. | Fri May 09 1997 14:00 | 6 |
RE: C-IIIXT on TZ87.
No. TZ88 and TZ89 do.
T.
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