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> 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?
> >
> > 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
DON'T buy a Ditto Max! If you want, I've a brand new one! I junked it because it is
too much slow to be usable, even in a Pentiun II 300MHz.
I bought a OnStream DI30, and it works very fine and very quickly.
Good luck!
Fabio Lissandrini
