The Ditto Max tape drive specs say that it will both read and write to
Ditto tapes of as little as 3 GB (compressed data capacity), and as high as
10 GB. However, it will not write to the equivalent size TR-3 tape (3 GB),
but will only read it. Have any of you Ditto Max owners ever tried
reformatting a TR-3, (with Ditto software OR with ftape-tools) and then
writing to it, or can the drive somehow distinguish the TR-3 from a Ditto
tape the same capacity, and prevent this?
It just seems strange to me that they can tell the difference between a
TR-3 and a Ditto tape with exactly the same capacity, even when using ftape
software to bypass(?) Ditto trick formatting.
My decision to buy or not buy a Ditto Max may depend on the answer to
this.
Thanks,
Jim
