I have been using an old Tandberg QIC drive with some success for QIC carts.
I have a Travan or two in the junk box but I an loath to dig them out unless I have to. The only trouble I have ever had with tape drives is non-standard lengths of carts. Linux has picked them up every time. The carts are another matter, some work - some don't. Jim Tarvid On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:54 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 21:46, Jim Tarvid wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 July 2002 09:26 pm, you wrote: > > > Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE ATAPI-base > > > tape drive and use it for Mandrake? > > > > Only because they are ugly, unreliable and smell bad. > > > > If you overrule that advice -- > > > > Buy two, make sure the carts interchange, and verify the backups by > > loading them on a second machine. > > > > I used them for years on an old RedHat box. Got them to work fairly well > > by twidling parameters. It felt good to look at the carts on the shelf, > > but... > > > > I keep an old Debian box around for no other purpose than backing up > > other servers. It has a CDRW so I can archive things in pieces. It has > > saved my ass many times. > > > > Not once in 30 some years of computing has a tape been so kind. > > > > One of these days DVD-R media will be cheap. In the meantime, I keep > > carving the world into 650MB pieces. > > > > Jim Tarvid > > Jim, > > I've got a bunch of tapes here that were originally done on a Colorado > 1400. They are DC-2120's (QIC 80) and some Verbatim MC3020's (QIC > 3020). The 1400 drive is long gone and I've got to get the data off of > them; what would you recommend as far as the best model of compatible > tape drive to get, so I can read them? Would a Travan drive handle it > or is there a better alternative? > > Also one of these Verbatims rewound to the end, and the tape snapped > loose from the spool in the cartridge. Is there a service out there > that will retrieve the tape data that you know of? > > Thanks -- > > LX
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