[rescue] VS80 DLT tape drive question

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Friday 14 December 2007, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> OK.  I'm pretty certain one of the current crop of high-density tape
> formats uses servo tracks ... I just don't remember which it is.

LTO does, and I think that SuperAIT does as well.

I know that at least SuperDLT-I uses an optical servo track, so it's 
still safe to degauss.  I'm not sure about other SuperDLT tapes, 
however.

Pat
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