kewlscottguy

I have a seagate backup drive that uses travan-8 tapes, which hold 4gig raw, 8 compressed i have some old travan-3 tapes they are the exact same size and identicle packaging to the travan-8's my new drive says it will read older model tapes but not write is there a way to trick the drive or do something to the travan-3 tapes so they will work, i guess what im trying to say is how does the drive know the tape someone please help!!!!! kewlscottguy@tds.net

i bought and built most of my computer does anyone know what the athlon xp 1700 cpu speed is my bios it is set to 132 megahertz and the board recognizes it, actually what i need to know is what the internet clock speed is you know 100 mhz 133 mhz