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Subject: -40- Why can't I write a tape on my DEC DAT drive and read it
on my SGI?
Date: 03 Dec 1994 00:00:01 EST
DEC DAT drives use hardware compression by default, and SGI DAT drives
can't handle that. Turn it off.
Furthermore, some SGI DAT drives hang when trying to read a hardware-
compressed tape, instead of saying "incompatible media" as they
should. This is fixed in recent firmware; call SGI for an upgrade.
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