> On May 23, 2015, at 12:40, Steven M Jones wrote:
>
>> (after I sell a few more kidneys, that is)
>
> Careful hunting on eBay can produce LTO-4 capabilities (0.8/1.6TB) for not
> too many vital organs. Just make sure you've got a fibre channel or SAS
> interface to talk to it.
Right. Me bei
On 05/23/2015 10:04, Mark J. Blair wrote:
I'd like to get a modern DLT drive for my modern computer backups
The current hotness is LTO (Linear Tape Open), I think LTO-5 gives you
3.0TB assuming 2:1 compression - and LTO-6 is probably the current flavor.
(after I sell a few more kidneys, tha
On 2015-05-23 19:04, Mark J. Blair wrote:
I got my TK50 drive from eBay. Boy, that tape feeding mechanism sure looks screwy!
I'd like to get a modern DLT drive for my modern computer backups (after I sell a
few more kidneys, that is), but I'm still a bit suspicious of their similar
(identical?
I got my TK50 drive from eBay. Boy, that tape feeding mechanism sure looks
screwy! I'd like to get a modern DLT drive for my modern computer backups
(after I sell a few more kidneys, that is), but I'm still a bit suspicious of
their similar (identical?) tape feeding scheme. All of my bad experie
On 05/21/2015 01:19 AM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
Am 20.05.15 um 22:41 schrieb Jon Elson:
It largely depends on storage conditions.
Sorry I can not afford a climate controlled cabinet. The tapes where
stored in my "machine room", i.e. a normal bedroom in my flat.
The "bad" conditions I mentioned were
Am 20.05.15 um 21:11 schrieb Johnny Billquist:
> Hmm. There might also be other issues when using a TZ30 as compared to a
> TK50 here... I don't even remember how the TZ30 looks inside. There
> might be rubber parts in there.
No rubber. The tapes got stuck to the read-/write head.
--
tschüß,
Am 20.05.15 um 22:41 schrieb Jon Elson:
> It largely depends on storage conditions.
Sorry I can not afford a climate controlled cabinet. The tapes where
stored in my "machine room", i.e. a normal bedroom in my flat.
--
tschüß,
Jochen
On 2015-05-20 21:06, Jochen Kunz wrote:
And my 9-track
tapes are rotten to the point of uselessness too. They still worked most
of the time about 10 years ago.
It largely depends on storage conditions. I recently read some of my
old backup tapes from the mid 1980's with no problem. The d
In case someone hasn't mentioned baking the tapes apparently an hour at 50
degc works wonders
On 20 May 2015 20:48, "Johnny Billquist" wrote:
> On 2015-05-20 21:36, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>> On 5/20/15 12:11 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>
>>> There might be rubber parts in there.
>>>
>>> Nope, I lik
On 2015-05-20 21:36, Al Kossow wrote:
On 5/20/15 12:11 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
There might be rubber parts in there.
Nope, I like them better than TK50s, though, because you pop off the two
C rings and the head assembly
lifts up to clean, which is necessary after every tape you try to read
On 5/20/15 12:11 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
There might be rubber parts in there.
Nope, I like them better than TK50s, though, because you pop off the two C
rings and the head assembly
lifts up to clean, which is necessary after every tape you try to read.
TK50 tapes stick or gum up at the e
On 2015-05-20 21:06, Jochen Kunz wrote:
Am 19.05.15 um 12:25 schrieb Johnny Billquist:
Wow. That is definitely YMMV then. I've never seen that happen anywhere,
and I occasionally still work with TK50s. (Even professionally.)
It was a TZ30 in a DEC3000 running NetBSD, IIRC. We tried several TK5
Am 19.05.15 um 12:25 schrieb Johnny Billquist:
>
> Wow. That is definitely YMMV then. I've never seen that happen anywhere,
> and I occasionally still work with TK50s. (Even professionally.)
It was a TZ30 in a DEC3000 running NetBSD, IIRC. We tried several TK50
tapes and all of them exhibited the
On 2015-05-19 09:23, Arno Kletzander wrote:
Johnny Billquist wrote:
The TK50 normally do not gum up. There are two problems with them, and
those problems have been around since day 1.
The first one is that the heads get dirty. Cleaning with isopropanol or
similar with a lint-free pad solves tha
Johnny Billquist wrote:
> The TK50 normally do not gum up. There are two problems with them, and
> those problems have been around since day 1.
> The first one is that the heads get dirty. Cleaning with isopropanol or
> similar with a lint-free pad solves that just fine.
> The second problem is
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