10 Jul
2001
10 Jul
'01
6:09 a.m.
At 12:26 PM 7/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
I have a drive that is identified on the front as a
TZ85
and on the top as a TK85-AX. The drive has a non-standard
interface one the back. The interface is a high-density
40-pin connector in two rows of 10.
Does anyone know what kind of connector is on this
drive?
This is an example of an early DLT drive (its the one that came after the
TK70) it takes CompacTape III carts and does 1.2GB/tape IIRC.
The connector goes to a "bridge board", one does SCSI and one of them does
DSSI. Yours apparently was hooked up to a SCSI board when installed in a
chassis because it calls itself the TZ85, if it had been hooked to a DSSI
board it would be called a TF85. They were fairly common in the 4000/xxx
series. I think I have a DSSI bridge board somewhere from a drive that had
been in one of those.
--Chuck