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- From: alan@solb1.essex.ac.uk (Alan M Stanier)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc
- Subject: CompacTape II?
- Message-ID: <6523@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:25:05 GMT
- Sender: news@sersun1.essex.ac.uk
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- Organization: University of Essex Computing Service, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK
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- We have a very old microVAX-II running VMS 5.3
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- I have recently been trying to read what I thought was a TK50, but it
- refuses to mount: the lights flash as though the tape is moving, but it
- never actually mounts, even if left overnight.
-
- Looking closely at the tape, it isn't marked CompacTape like all our other
- TK-50s, but CompacTapeII. The instruction sheet inside says it can be
- mounted in TK50 or TK70 drives.
-
- I have never heard of CompacTapeII, or TK70 drives (This is not an area
- of computing we go into much).
-
- Could someone who works in this area tell me: I am assuming that the TK70
- is an improved TK50, and CompacTapeII is designed to work with both: is it
- possible that the TK50 on our microVAX is of an old design that won't mount
- CompacTapeII? (I am, as you may have guessed, clutching at straws here,
- having exhausted my meagre knowledge of Vaxen).
-
- Any help would be much appreciated.
-
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- Alan M Stanier | alan@essex.ac.uk | +44 206 872153
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