HP C5683A

[Budhi Dasaradi]

This drive is writing to a tape of capacity 40GB but when 2 or 4 GB tape is tried to be written, i get the message "Tape is write protected" even though the tape is not write protected.

[Dave Dewar · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The C5683A only supports read of DDS1 (90m) tapes, it will not write to them.

See link below for more details.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?locale=en_US&objectID=lpg50116&locale=en_US&taskId=101&prodSeriesId=63890&prodTypeId=12169

To minimise wear and tear on the drive it is best to use the "native tapes for each DAT drive. "Native" DDS tapes are, for example, DAT72 tapes for a DAT72 tape drive, DDS4 tapes for a DDS4 tape drive, and so on.

See link below for more details on this:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=lpg51254&locale=en_US

Cheers,

Dave Dewar