15 Jan
2004
15 Jan
'04
2:52 p.m.
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> wrote:
The 8500 should work fine as well, according to documentation I have.
I just decided
to test a TLZ06 on my system, and it don't want to
work. I normally play with an Exabyte 8200, and that works just fine.
(This on a 11/84 with a CMD controller)
I managed to dig up a TZ30 and a couple TK50's last night, though I didn't
get a chance to try it. If an Exabyte 8200 works just fine, I think I might
try the Exabyte 8500, as I can hook it up to my PDP-11/23+ fairly easy
(hooking an external drive up to my /73 as I mentioned would require
rewiring the SCSI Bus). I just wish I'd thought to dig out a couple 8mm
tapes while I was digging. BTW, what do you mean by "didn't want to
work". Do you mean that it wouldn't
work at all with your PDP-11/84 and CMD controller? The TLZ06 works just
fine on my PDP-11/73 with Viking controller. It's just with RSTS/E ANSI
tapes that I seem to be having a problem.
I just tried with RSX, using BRU, DMP and INI. With DMP I tried a tape I
wrote on another machine with tar.
I got some funny error. I can send you the RSX error log of the occasion,
if that makes you happy. Both BRU and INI will create small blocks.
Btw, I also created small blocks on the NetBSD machine I have a DDS drive
on, and it went just fine there.
But I did notice that someone else said that the TLZ06 will not like DDS2
tapes, which is what I had. The NetBSD box appearantly have a DDS2
drive... (since it works fine)
Johnny
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