21 Mar
2012
21 Mar
'12
10:08 p.m.
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Jon Elson wrote:
I have a 9-track drive that interfaces to an ISA bus PC through a proprietary
card. It worked the last time I fired it up (about 10 years ago) and has
been in dry storage.
Questions:
- What is the bpi density on those tapes? This thing will not read the
highest density tapes.
- Where are you located?
Well, some are 1600 BPI, some are 6250. I have verified my drive is
working at both densities (before the SCSI adapter died.)
I can read 1600 and, I believe 3200 (?). I know this drive does not
handle 6250.
We are trying to recover some programs from 9-track
backup tapes.
I am in St. Louis, MO.
That would tend to create some logistic issues. I'm located in
Burlington, VT.
I am working on an FPGA interface to the Pertec
formatted interface,
it ought to work, but I don't know how much fooling around it will
take to get reliable data transfers.
This list has the right people to help with the design and methodology :-)
Steve
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