Writing HP cartridge tapes on a Sun 3

[David Lai]

In article <151 at karhu.tut.FI> jarmo at tut.FI (Jarmo Sorvari) writes:
>
>No.  I have bought 3M tapes, run 'mediainit' on them, and used without
>problems.  I am using an HP 9000/840.  3M tapes worked on our previous
>9000/550, also; I think initialization was done using the command
>sdfinit (?).

When I pop a regular 3M tape into the 9144 drive (HP9000/300), it cranks
a while then the 'fault' lite appears.  I can't get it to do anything
with mediainit.

(Actaully my problem is using non-preformatted tapes for the HP)  Is there
a way of formatting them?
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