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From: tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten)
Subject: Re: Problem with old+new scsi drivers
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Keywords: SCSI TAPE WANGTEK 5525ES
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In article <CIEr3p.816@apollo.hp.com> sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com (Bill Sommerfeld) writes:
>If it's a QIC525 drive, make sure you have a 525MB tape, not an
>el-cheapo QIC150 or smaller tape.

Actually, depending upon the drive this could be bad advice.  Both the
Wangtek 5525 and the Archive 2525 QIC-525 drives will read and write
QIC-150 tapes.  The versions of Julian's driver I use works well with
both drives and both types of tape.

QIC-150 tapes are useful for data exchange with machines whose drives won't
support the denser recording method, and they're less expensive too.  For
those reasons, I use whichever tape makes the most sense for the application.
That works with both 386BSD (patch level largest) and with FreeBSD 1.0.2.
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