Odd PDP-11 tape related question

14 Jan 2004

...
    Interesting....  BTW, the DDS1 drive I'm using is
a DEC TLZ06.  Any idea if  Hmm, wasnt the TLZ06 a DDS2 drive?  At any rate, yeah,
this drive
 might very well have this "problem" .. I had it with many DDS
 drives, might even have been a TLZ in that stack... I *do* know
 I tested it with a TLZ04.

  this might also be a problem with an Exabyte 8500
tape drive?  It would be  Cant remember... only had a 8200 at the time, and cant
remember the
 results of that..  
 I just decided to test a TLZ06 on my system, and it don't want to
 work. I normally play with an Exabyte 8200, and that works just fine.
 (This on a 11/84 with a CMD controller) 
I managed to dig up a TZ30 and a couple TK50's last night, though I didn't
get a chance to try it.  If an Exabyte 8200 works just fine, I think I might 
try the Exabyte 8500, as I can hook it up to my PDP-11/23+ fairly easy
(hooking an external drive up to my /73 as I mentioned would require
rewiring the SCSI Bus).  I just wish I'd thought to dig out a couple 8mm
tapes while I was digging.

BTW, what do you mean by "didn't want to work".  Do you mean that it
wouldn't
work at all with your PDP-11/84 and CMD controller?  The TLZ06 works just
fine on my PDP-11/73 with Viking controller.  It's just with RSTS/E ANSI
tapes that I seem to be having a problem.

			Zane

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Odd PDP-11 tape related question