On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 10:40:49PM -0500, Timothy J. Massey wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I hope I am not asking a redundant question, or to the wrong place. I have
> searched the Internet as much as I can and I have read the entire ftape
> HOWTO, but I can't find the answer to my question.
>
> I have a Colorado Jumbo 350 tape drive. It uses both 2120 and 2120XL
> cartridges. According to what I have read, the 2120XL tapes are identical to
> 2120's except they are longer. This allows them to store 170MB instead of
> the 120MB a normal 2120 stores. Will the ftape program use the longer 2120XL
> tapes and store the full 170MB with them? Or should I just save my money and
> go with 2120's?
It worked fine when I last used mine (it's been a while), though it
was not able at that time to format such a tape it could write/read them.
I haven't tried it since 4.x came out, so perhaps it can now format them
too (or perhaps not, apparently the drive is weird). It would format
2080 tapes but not 2120xl.
Fred
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