8mm data cartridges

[Pete Turnbull]

Ethan Dicks wrote:

> I thought the dots on the bottom of the carts would cause audio tapes
> to be kicked out of data drives.  Is that not so?  I _think_ you could
> use data tapes in an audio DAT recorder/player, but I only ever saw
> one of those, so I can't say for certain.

Ah, that rings a bell.  I remember someone bringing us a DAT (not DDS) 
tape and it not being accepted.

> The DAT tapes I have (going back to 60meter DDS-1) all have this media
> recognition system that the drives are supposed to respect, or so I
> thought.  Did I think wrong?

No, that sounds right.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York