Date   : Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:05:46 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: MDFS Tapes

In article <940F881755E047198F11BE40EB776E9E.MAI@...>, Ian
Wolstenholme <BBCMailingList@...> writes

>I wonder if it something to do with my using the DC 2060 tapes,
>which are the later version of the DC 2000.  Maybe my drive will only
>accept the old DC 2000 tapes.

Possibly.  Generally speaking, with tape drives and tapes, later tapes
tend to be only read-compatible in earlier drives.

Another possibility is that the tapes need initialising (I hesitate to
use the word "formatting") in some way, especially as IIRC the MDFS
treats them as a sort of slow random-access media.  Perhaps there's a
tape formatter in the MDFS utilities somewhere?