8 May
2007
8 May
'07
4:44 a.m.
Mr Ian Primus wrote:
--- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at
yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
Aha... interesting. I'll give local Freecycle a prod and see if anyone has one
nearby that I can borrow. What with Andy's post and another offer off-list I
expect I can attempt a read at some point, anyway!
How common were drives which could read these? I
suspect the answer is "not
very"! If anyone has one, how reliable was/is the
media?
Actually, they're pretty common from what I have seen,
but then again, I work with lots of systems that use
them. Those are Exabyte cartridges - you need to find
an Exabyte drive. The Exabyte drives are SCSI, and are pretty reliable.
That's good to hear. They reminded me of big DAT tapes, and I've had some
pretty nasty experiences with DAT in the past :-)
Both tapes and drives seem pretty reliable, and using
video tape for data DOES work, although it's not
technically reccomended.
Well as I'm not sure what's even on them - and whatever is on there is
probably something very dull - I'm not too fussed if they turn out to be
unreadable. I just figured I should make an effort to at least try!
cheers
J.