4 Jan
2008
4 Jan
'08
8:47 p.m.
Matt & Kathy Carpenter wrote:
A few years ago I picked up a DEC TSZ07 and would like to access it
from my PC.
The DEC TSZ07 is a tabletop 9-track tape drive with a SCSI-1
interface. Apparently it was originally manufactured by Cipher Data,
model 955-S.
I'd just like to write some files out to tape and then read them back.
I don't have to recover/restore any data from an old tape. Ideally
from a Windows machine.
Has anyone tried this? Is there any software available?
Matt
Roswell, Georgia
I've done something similar under WinXP using the CYGWIN unix emulation
environment, which has 'dd', 'mt', and all your other favorite
command-line unix utilities available.
I have a DEC SCSI QIC tape drive (TSZ10 or something like that)
connected to an Adaptec AHA-2940U in my windows machine. Within cygwin,
this device then shows up as /dev/st0, where you can 'dd' and 'mt' as
you like.
BTW you can also 'dd' to your system disks (as /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX)
as well, so be careful!
cygwin is available at www.cygwin.com
Don