On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 at 4:19pm, Kent L. Nasveschuk wrote

> Hello Joshua,
> Thanks for your reply. After talking with Overland tech support I have
> reached at least one conclusion. The drive and the tape is AIT-1. AIT-2

Oops.  I shoulda' caught that -- the model number returned by mtx is 
indeed an AIT1 model.  Errr, I hope this thing wasn't mis-advertised to 
you...

> is being reported by mt -f /dev/nst0 status. An AIT-1 drive cannot write
> to an AIT-2 tape per Overland Storage. 5 of the box of 10 that I got

That's correct.

> reported AIT-2 even though they are supposed to be AIT-1 tapes. My guess
> is that they are defective. The other 5, I was able to write to without
> a problem, finally.

The "model number" for Sony branded AIT1 tapes is SDX1-35C.  If that helps 
at all...

> The tapes I originally tried to write to were all bad which is why I
> assumed that something else was wrong. 
> 
I see Words occurring with a vendor here.  Good luck.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University