On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:02:53 +0200, R.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >2. Drive mode, and then "internal" data format incompatibilities. Indeed, the following can happen: a drive in mode A cannot read tape written by the drive in mode B.
Not sure what you are getting at here. He did say both sides were 9840C. Even if the other side was 9840A or 9840B (which are the same format), 9840C can read both. Also, a 9840 in 3590 mode can read data originally written from a 9840 in 3490 mode. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
