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Section - -40- Why can't I write a tape on my DEC DAT drive and read it on my SGI?

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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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