[Info-vax] TLZ7

[smithfarm]

> What puzzles me is the date "December 13, 1985"
> which is definitely much earlier than DDS-2 technology.

Well, it actually says "Q.C. PASSED 85.12.13". Since YY-MM-DD is quite 
common in Asia, where I assume this was made, I interpreted it as 
"December 13, 1985". But you are right - according to Wikipedia DDS-1 
came out in 1989.

> If it really is a TLZ07, i.e. a DDS-2 drive,
> it will only take DDS-2 and DDS-1 media, no DDS-3 and above.

I read somewhere that there is a jumper setting (on the real TLZ07) that 
turns media recognition on and off.

To be sure, I will not use DDS-3 media in it, but it was interesting 
that it worked at all. I will writing a longer file to a DDS-2 tape and 
see what happens.

I don't have any DDS-1 tapes yet to try. I shopped around and it looks 
like they cost about $4 here and, since I guess nobody uses them 
anymore, there is a 2-week lead time between ordering and delivery.

In the meantime, I found the autoloader cartridge. It was on the bottom 
of a box of tapes that came with the drive. The loader takes 4 tapes.

Nathan