RE: TK50 cleaning and unloading issues, new thought:

2020-05-24 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
TK50 tape. Regards Rob > -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Chris Zach via > cctalk > Sent: 24 May 2020 02:42 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: TK50 cleaning and unloading issues, new thought: > > Ok. Any way to suck data off them to an image fi

Re: TK50 cleaning and unloading issues, new thought:

2020-05-23 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Sat, May 23, 2020, 7:10 PM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > On 5/23/20 5:58 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > > Tapes are shedding that much > > yup, they are garbage. > > high probability that you will make the first pass across the tape and it > will stick > when it reverses direction for the

Re: TK50 cleaning and unloading issues, new thought:

2020-05-23 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Ok. Any way to suck data off them to an image file? I have some Vax 8600 diagnostics, would hate to just toss. C On 5/23/2020 9:10 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 5/23/20 5:58 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: Tapes are shedding that much yup, they are garbage. high probability that you

Re: TK50 cleaning and unloading issues, new thought:

2020-05-23 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 5/23/20 5:58 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: Tapes are shedding that much yup, they are garbage. high probability that you will make the first pass across the tape and it will stick when it reverses direction for the second pass the only TK drive I will even use is the TZ30 1/2 height be

Re: TK50 cleaning and unloading issues, new thought:

2020-05-23 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Tapes are shedding that much, hm? C On 5/23/2020 12:29 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 5/23/20 9:16 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: try putting in a TK50 tape drive. no point, you're going to pull it out every time you try to read a tape to clean the head and tape path

Re: TK50 cleaning and unloading issues, new thought:

2020-05-23 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 5/23/20 9:16 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: try putting in a TK50 tape drive. no point, you're going to pull it out every time you try to read a tape to clean the head and tape path