18 May
2005
18 May
'05
5:51 p.m.
I have an old Altos tape drive that uses DC300 tapes. I went to the local
hardware store and bought a rubber grommet with an inside diameter just
slightly smaller than the capstan on the drive, so it would fit nice and
tight. I then used fine sandpaper to get the outer diameter to match the
original. Slipped it on the capstan and backed up the hard drive on my
ACS8000.
on 5/18/05 7:20 PM, Tony Duell at ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
I don't
know the 9144 number. If that's a QIC drive, I (and probably
It is, and it isn't :-). The tapes are the same physical dimensions as,
say, a DC300 cartridge, but the format is not one of the QIC formats. In
fact the tapes are pre-formatted by HP and can't be reformatted by the
drive.
IIRC the 9144 is a 16 track unit, the 9145 is similar but 32 track.
-tony