I may be able to help. I have had mixed success reading QIC tapes.
I have encountered two problems reading them.
1. Band failure. There is a band inside the cartridge that keeps the
tape taut when drive advances and rewinds the tape. These bands like to
fail. I have found replacements that seem to work.
2. Sticky tapes. I have had a lot of problems with the tape sticking and
binding as it goes around posts inside the cartridge. I have yet to find
a satisfactory way around this.
If your tape has the second problem, I can't read it, but may be able to
if it doesn't.
alan
On 10/4/20 9:58 PM, Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote:
Hi Chen,
I just tried the tape drive and sadly it too has the capacitor leakage
problem like the CDROM drive.
So sorry but I cannot help reading your tapes.
Regards
Tom Hunter
On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 2:05 PM Chenshyh Tsay via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
Dear Tom,
Does your Sun workstation is functional and read QIC -150 cartridge?
I have some old 3M 6150 cartridges that was created by Sun Sparc
workstation in 2000.
One those cartridges, I have some my personal files I like to get them.
If you can you read those cartridges, I can pay some money for you?
Chen Tsay
