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From: Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger)
Subject: QIC-120 and QIC-150
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I have a question regarding QIC drives with FreeBSD 2.1.5.

I have some Cartridges here with 120 MB (15 tracks) and 150 MB (18 tracks).
Problem is, these cartidges are mixed up. So I is unusable for a backup,
where a script always wants to use the same device name.....

So what can be done to reformat QIC-120 to QIC-150? Must I degauss
the tape completely? (If yes: How can it be done?)

The "standard method"

mt rewind
mt fsf 1
mt fsf 1
mt rewoffl
(reload tape)

does NOT work.

I have a very old Tandberg TDC3600 drive.

Pascal
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