19 Aug
2007
19 Aug
'07
8:24 p.m.
On Friday 17 August 2007 20:27, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 17 Aug 2007 at 22:58, Tony Duell wrote:
I'm a bit confused by all those QIC designations, since they sometimes seem
to refer to completely different things...
Got one drive here that has a 50-pin connector, and it came along with an
8-bit ISA card -- some sort of a proprietary interface, and I have no idea
about the spec. I installed it in a box way back when I was first starting
to get going with linux (1999 or 2000?), got it working to the point where I
could get tar to write some data to a tape, and that was the extent of it.
I still have it somewhere...
I also ran into another drive, an Archive (something)L-50 if I'm remembering
right, that was in an NCR tower that left my posession some time ago -- that
one was SCSI, and also used a 50-pin connector. Any chance the one you have
is SCSI?
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
The OP might want to look at that site and follow
the links for
'storage', 'magnetic tape' and 'HP9144' (or 'HP9145'). I
think that will
turn up a like or twon that will be helpful
Thanks, Tony. Mystery solved. The drive in question probably takes
DC600HC or DC600XTD "Iotamat" preformatted tapes. That would explain
the 3M-labeled EPROM on the tape MPU board (uses an MC6800). Well,
the drive will go back onto the shelf; I don't even know what the 50-
conductor interface is supposed to connect to, though I suspect it
may be a cousin of a QIC-36 type.