Re: Reading ancient tapes using Emulex MD21 SCSI board

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From: chris ulrich
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:16

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In article <slrn93amkg.daq.mdalene@pinkrose.ctol.net>,
B'ichela <mdalene@home.ctol.net> wrote:
%%gOn Mon, 11 Dec 2000 06:29:49 -0600, Dave Merrill <r390a@enteract.com> wrote:
%%g	having a Wangtek 5150es (its the scsi version). I have made
%%gDC600A tapes on it without a hitch! Forget those DC300XLs! Those wont
%%gwrite (never tried a read). if the tapes are DC600s you should not
%%ghave a problem. PROVINDING that the restore software is the same type
%%gas on the SUN. If the sun used dump. use dump to read em back. if tar
%%guse tar. if it was cpio, try the gnu cpio.
%%g			B'ichela


  If you use the lower density DC600A tapes and write with a QIC150
tape drive, the resulting tapes will be 125mb and will not be readable
in a 60mb tape drive.
  You will be able to read them with a QIC150 tape drive, though.
chris

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