Jim Rankin wrote:
>
> 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?
Ditto Max drives don't even have a FORMAT command in their firmware.
Sorry, no dice.
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