25 Jan
2013
25 Jan
'13
2:09 p.m.
I picked up a TSZ08 on Ebay a couple years ago. I haven't used it lately, but it
still loads tapes successfully. It's a horizontal 9-track drive like the TSZ07.
John H. Reinhardt
On 1/25/2013 8:00 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
TS08 - great drive, I'd love to find one used.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net <mailto:ian at
platinum.net>> wrote:
We're any of the other DEC drives released in a scsi version?
Ian
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On 2013-01-24, at 8:33 PM, Kari Uusim ki
<uusimaki at exdecfinland.org <mailto:uusimaki at exdecfinland.org>>
wrote:
(TZ85,TZ86,TZ87) can
read TK50 tapes, but DEC drives sure do.
On 25.1.2013 0:26, Ian McLaughlin wrote:
>
> On 2013-01-24, at 2:06 AM, Kari Uusim ki
<uusimaki at
exdecfinland.org <mailto:uusimaki at exdecfinland.org>> wrote:
>
>> Is the takeup leader (the plastic ribbon which is fastened to
the
internal reel) intact? Its outer end which grabs the tape from
the cassette is arrow-shaped. Is the "arrow" quite in order? If
not, the takeup leader should be replaced.
>
> Tape leader is fine on this drive. The problem with this
cartridge is
the spool inside the cartridge jammed and wouldn't
rotate causing the drive to not rewind.
Ok. Cartridge failure, then. Could it have been
accidentally
dropped? I've seen several times DLT cartriges fail after
been
dropped on the floor.
>> You can also read a TK50 tape with a newer DLT drive like
TZ85, TZ86
and TZ87.
>
> Is this true? According to Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Linear_Tape a CompacTape I
can only be read by a TK50 and a TK70.
>
> Can anyone confirm or deny this? I have some newer generation
DLT
drives, but none of them admit to being backwards compatible
that far.
Ian
.
I'm not sure if others than DEC branded DLT drives Even the front of the drive has leds which indicate
which
formats the drive can handle.
Like Johnny said, Wikipedia articles aren't always the complete
truth of
the topic.
Regards,
Kari
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