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Article #427Re: Reading ancient tapes using Emulex MD21 SCSI board
From: Nick Andrew
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:09
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:09
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mibu@scrum.muc.de (M. Buchenrieder) writes:
>This is probably caused by the missing terminator. You'll need
>at least passive termination on the drive to get that working.
>I have to agree with the previous' poster: Get yourself a
>borrowed QIC-150 SCSI tape drive instead, as it can easily
>read 60 MB cartridges, although you'll have to experiment
>with the blocksize that the Sun had used when writing to the
>tape.
A kind soul is going to post me a QIC-150 SCSI drive tomorrow ... :-)
Nick.
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