Frederic Woodbridge wrote: > > Do I have to "format" a tape before I can use it, especially if it > was on an NT box and now no longer is? Am I making sense? > Since generally the various medium formats are specified in international standards and the drivers have to abide by them, I would say no, you don't need to format a medium just because you change the platform. But don't expect the data to be readable in both platforms - this may or may not be the case, even though the format remains the same. This is the concrete situation with the QIC standards and the ftape driver which implements them in Linux. I don't know if this is the case with DLT too, but I would expect so. -- Regards Chris Karakas Don´t waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net
