On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 at 4:19pm, Kent L. Nasveschuk wrote > Hello Joshua, > Thanks for your reply. After talking with Overland tech support I have > reached at least one conclusion. The drive and the tape is AIT-1. AIT-2
Oops. I shoulda' caught that -- the model number returned by mtx is indeed an AIT1 model. Errr, I hope this thing wasn't mis-advertised to you... > is being reported by mt -f /dev/nst0 status. An AIT-1 drive cannot write > to an AIT-2 tape per Overland Storage. 5 of the box of 10 that I got That's correct. > reported AIT-2 even though they are supposed to be AIT-1 tapes. My guess > is that they are defective. The other 5, I was able to write to without > a problem, finally. The "model number" for Sony branded AIT1 tapes is SDX1-35C. If that helps at all... > The tapes I originally tried to write to were all bad which is why I > assumed that something else was wrong. > I see Words occurring with a vendor here. Good luck. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
