AFAIK you cannot. All you can is to write 36-track data on CST cart.
You can write 18-track data on CST cart and then read it in 36-track
drive.
Hints: 18-track is 3480 (also 3480X, 3490), 36-track is 3490E.
36-track drive can write 36-track data and *read* 18-track data.
we discussed this a few weeks ago. The 3490-F11 is a strange beast
which CAN write in either 18 or 36-track format, unlike most of its
siblings. It was generally marked for open system connection, not S/390
connection but it can be made to work on S/390. Sylvia has apparently
figured out how to tell it to write in 18.
I recall that we used to have a SCSI 3490-lookalike that we attached to
our MP3000 for OS/390. It could write in either format, but the drive
had 2 device addresses, depending on which format you wanted to write.
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