--- Tim Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, that's going a bit far. The problem with the
> Max/TR-3 issue is
> one of head assembly. Some time, the laws of
> manufacturing and physics
> prohibit carrying forward old technology. In order
> to create a head
> assembly that can place 90+ tracks on a piece of
> tape that is .318"
> wide, the physical magnet pieces have to be so small
> that they could not
> possibly write a track wide enough to be recognized
> by a TR-3 capable
> head. Plus, the magnetic properties of the new,
> thinner media makes the
> electronic model much different between drive types.
>
That sounds reasonable for some cases, but Ditto does
read/write their own smaller tapes (down to 3 GB) with
the Ditto Max. This makes me wonder what the obstacle
is for any of the manufacturers doing this with
similar 10 GB drives. I'd be happy to switch to a
Travan 10 GB, or even 8 or 5 GB drive if it would
read/write the TR-3 as well, as Ditto does with the 3
GB Ditto tapes. But the newer Colorado drives will
only read the TR-3.
I'd even be willing to reformat the TR-3's in a newer
drive first, if that would work, but I can't find any
claim that it does work. Incidentally, I've found that
reformatting often reduces error rates over factory
formatting anyway, so I'd be totally unwilling to buy
a drive with no format capability.
Thanks for your considerable info on all this!
Jim
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