Re: 1/4" tape drives?

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From: Timothy Hu
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:01

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In article <1993Jan26.222745.4552@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> wood@havedash.aer.loral.com (Bill Wood) writes:
>   Does anyone know if it is possible to connect a 1/4" tape drive
>(150Mb QIC-150 DC-6150 tapes) to an ISA 486 system?  These are the
>larger tapes, not the small DC-2xxx tapes.  Specifically, 
>I would like to be able to read tar tapes from a Sun SPARCstation
>on a PC.
>
>   Any help in locating vendors which sell the tapes, controllers and/or
>software necessary would be most appreciated.
>
>   Please respond by e-mail so I don't miss your response in this high-volume
>newsgroup.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bill Wood
>wood@havedash.aer.loral.com
>

If you're getting a SCSI tape drive, you might want to get an Adaptec
1542B host adapter. Then you'll want GNUtar for DOS which is available
from an ftp site:

ftp.uu.net:systems/msdos/simtel20/dskutl/aspibin.zip

I am consistently able to read tapes that I've written from a SPARC.
However, I'm having a bit of trouble getting files with names longer
than the 8+3 DOS format.

Tim
-- 
Timothy Hu timhu@ico.isc.com	 | The intelligence (or lack of) expressed
Interactive Systems Corporation  | above does not necessarily reflect
Resource Solutions International | that of anyone else.

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