On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Man, these things are annoying. > > All of the bands are bad, and they leave residue on the spools. > There are no EOT BOT holes on the HP tape, and the drive locks
I assume you mean the HP9144 and HP9145 drives/tapes. The HP9142 uses normal QIC24 formatting and does have the optical hole sensor (I have just checked the schematics). -tony