150Mbyte 1/4" tape drives?

[David Maynard]

Does anyone know what drive and controller are used in the new 150 Mbyte
1/4" tape drive option?  Does the new option still use the Emulex MT-02
controller?  I asked our local Sun office, but they haven't had a chance
to investigate the new drives yet.

Also, are tapes written in QIC-24 format on the new drives transferrable
to the 60Mbyte drives?  (I ask because, when Sun switched from 4-track to
9-track drives there was a slight compatibility problem. Since the 9-track
drives wrote a narrower track that some 4-track drives could not reliably
read.)

Thanks,
David
 
 David P. Maynard (dpm at cs.cmu.edu)
 Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
 Carnegie Mellon University
 Pittsburgh, PA  15213
 
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