150 Mb Archive Viper can't write 60 Mb tapes???

[Michael Davidson]

bill at twg.UUCP (Bill Irwin) writes:
>The sould of this when I heard it was so absurd I just had to ask the net
>right  away.   We are just installing an Archive Viper 150Mb  tape  drive
>into  an i386 running SCO UNIX (current release).  One of the technicians
>said  that  it could read 60Mb tapes produced on a 60Mb streamer, but  it
>couldn't produce tapes that could be read by the 60Mb.

I'm afraid that your technician is absolutely right....
A 150 Meg drive will ONLY write 150 Meg tapes.
The 150 Meg drives are *supposed* to be able to read 60 Meg
tapes, but "your mileage may vary" on this one so be sure to
check this out with some sample 60 Meg tapes written on the
60 Meg drives that you actually care about BEFORE you
get yourself into a dire emergency when you actually
need to read 60 Meg tapes.