12 Aug
2007
12 Aug
'07
8:21 p.m.
I've dug out an old Adic tape drive and thought at first that it used
standard DC-300 or DC-600 cartridges. But every time I put a cart in
the unit, the tape would spin for a couple of seconds and then the
error light and alarm would come on.
Poking inside the cabinet, it's very obvious that the DC-600 type of
cartridge has the correct form factor, but that this unit doesn not
employ optical sensing of BOT/EOT, etc. There are no optical sensors
at all. I'm not certain, but I don't even think a conductive foil
sensor is used either. It appears that the tape must be preformatted
with some sort of prerecorded pattern to identify the beginning of
tape.
Anyone have any idea of what kind of tape this thing takes?
Cheers,
Chuck