On 06/08/2012 05:11 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
Dave outside your door is a well dressed gentleman in a
suit that looks like something a certain outrageous poet and author
wore, and has hair to match. (Hint: its the same daft stuff I
sometimes pull on Sampsa.) There's also a blue colored box
outside.........
Ok, you lost me there, my friend.
Welcome to the world of strange Dr Who references..
Uh-oh.
Explains why I didn't get it either (not a fan).
Me neither. ;) No offense, Gregg!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 06/08/2012 04:24 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I haven't tried cleaning TK50 heads in years, but I will (now
that I
have a more respectable workspace) start trying that. I will let you
know how things go. I'll probably start digging into those within the
next month or two. Thank you for the suggestion!
I take it TK50 tapes won't read in a later drive?
They will. TK70 and TK85 (if I remember right) can both read TK50.
You also have the TZ30 (I think the name is), which is a TK50
compatible, but smaller drive, with SCSI.
The TK85 can read TK50s? I didn't know that! If that's the case,
it's likely that the TF85 (DSSI version) may as well, and I have one of
those. That may be one more option to get my huge pile of TK50s read.
Yes, it should.
See
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CGYQFjA…
(Page 5)
Thanks for the info! This gives me a nice option.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 8 Jun 2012, at 10:09, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 06/08/2012 04:58 AM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Dave outside your door is a well dressed gentleman in a
suit that looks like something a certain outrageous poet and author
wore, and has hair to match. (Hint: its the same daft stuff I
sometimes pull on Sampsa.) There's also a blue colored box
outside.........
Ok, you lost me there, my friend.
Welcome to the world of strange Dr Who references..
Uh-oh.
Explains why I didn't get it either (not a fan).
--
Mark Benson
http://markbenson.org/bloghttp://twitter.com/MDBenson
On 8.6.2012 10:31, Mark Benson wrote:
On 8 Jun 2012, at 08:23, Dave McGuire<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
I haven't tried cleaning TK50 heads in years, but I will (now that I
have a more respectable workspace) start trying that. I will let you
know how things go. I'll probably start digging into those within the
next month or two. Thank you for the suggestion!
I take it TK50 tapes won't read in a later drive?
Yes, a TZ87 (DLT2000) can read TK50 tapes and TK70 tapes as well.
Kari
On 06/08/2012 05:08 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
The TK85 can read TK50s? I didn't know that! If that's the case,
it's likely that the TF85 (DSSI version) may as well, and I have one of those. That may be one more option to get my huge pile of TK50s read.
I had a feeling the later TKs read TK50. I read it on on of HP's DLT
compatibility docs but couldn't remember if it was TK50 or TK70 that
was the oldest compatible format. I have a SCSI-II DLT4000 drive (TK88
or 89??) and I know that doesn't read any old TK tapes, only DLT1,2
etc.
The general rule with most of those format is that the current drive
will read and write the current format, and read (but not write) the
previous format. There are of course exceptions, but not many.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 06/08/2012 04:58 AM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Dave outside your door is a well dressed gentleman in a
suit that looks like something a certain outrageous poet and author
wore, and has hair to match. (Hint: its the same daft stuff I
sometimes pull on Sampsa.) There's also a blue colored box
outside.........
Ok, you lost me there, my friend.
Welcome to the world of strange Dr Who references..
Uh-oh.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 8 Jun 2012, at 09:24, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2012-06-08 09:56, Dave McGuire wrote:
The TK85 can read TK50s? I didn't know that! If that's the case,
it's likely that the TF85 (DSSI version) may as well, and I have one of those. That may be one more option to get my huge pile of TK50s read.
I had a feeling the later TKs read TK50. I read it on on of HP's DLT
compatibility docs but couldn't remember if it was TK50 or TK70 that
was the oldest compatible format. I have a SCSI-II DLT4000 drive (TK88
or 89??) and I know that doesn't read any old TK tapes, only DLT1,2
etc.
Yes, it should.
See http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CGYQFjA…
(Page 5)
Page 5 of the PDF or the URL? ;)
--
Mark Benson
http://markbenson.org/bloghttp://twitter.com/MDBenson
On 8 Jun 2012, at 02:35, Dave McGuire wrote:
Dave outside your door is a well dressed gentleman in a
suit that looks like something a certain outrageous poet and author
wore, and has hair to match. (Hint: its the same daft stuff I
sometimes pull on Sampsa.) There's also a blue colored box
outside.........
Ok, you lost me there, my friend.
Welcome to the world of strange Dr Who references..
Sampsa
On 2012-06-08 10:06, Sampsa Laine wrote:
On 8 Jun 2012, at 00:10, Dave McGuire wrote:
Of course it'd be preferable in a dozen ways to have the native
kernel-based DECnet support continue to be maintained, alongside IPv4,
IPv6, etc where it belongs...but if we can't find anyone to do that
work, we'll have to solve the problem some other way, when it actually
becomes a problem.
The upside of this solution is that it's relatively portable though - I'd love to have a DECNET stack on my OS X boxes, for example (in fact as mentioned before latd DOES work on OS X as it's kinda implemented in a similar way)..
Which reminds me that I should work on/write a replacement lat suite, since the version out there today have some bugs. I've tried looking at it, but I'm just not into C++, or able to penetrate the code enough.
Anyway, using the lat client program supplied, connecting to RSX, it seems like it breaks the lat protocol sometimes. And unfortunately, the RSX LAT server have a bug triggered by the free lat implementation, in which the session gets lost, and as a result some memory is lost in RSX. This eventually cause the system to crash because no more free memory is available in DECnet.
Johnny
On 2012-06-08 09:56, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 06/08/2012 03:55 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I haven't tried cleaning TK50 heads in years, but I will (now that I
have a more respectable workspace) start trying that. I will let you
know how things go. I'll probably start digging into those within the
next month or two. Thank you for the suggestion!
I take it TK50 tapes won't read in a later drive?
They will. TK70 and TK85 (if I remember right) can both read TK50.
You also have the TZ30 (I think the name is), which is a TK50
compatible, but smaller drive, with SCSI.
The TK85 can read TK50s? I didn't know that! If that's the case,
it's likely that the TF85 (DSSI version) may as well, and I have one of
those. That may be one more option to get my huge pile of TK50s read.
Yes, it should.
See http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CGYQFjA…
(Page 5)
Johnny
