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Article #430Re: Reading ancient tapes using Emulex MD21 SCSI board
From: jason andrade
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 22:18
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 22:18
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nick@zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew) writes: >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 ... :-) hmm. i think i have sunos 4.1.1_u1 for sun3 and sun3x on qic60.. when you're done with the drive, maybe i can borrow it so i can rescue the data and write it out to cdrom too :-) regards, -jason
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