Toomas Aas schrieb: > Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> The seller says the tapes were written to with a VS80-drive and that it >> is possible that this format stays somehow permanently written to the >> tape so that I would not be able to re-use it with my DLT8000. >> >> I am unsure about this and would like to hear your thoughts and/or >> experiences. > > From my experience I would say the seller is correct. I haven't tried > using DLTVS80 tapes with DLT8000, but I know for a fact that the > opposite can't be done - tapes that were written with DLT8000 cannot be > read with DLTVS. The only way to re-use them would be to degauss them > first, but I don't have that kind of equipment so I haven't tried.
Thanks for that info, Toomas ... Stefan
