9 Track Tape Drive Interface Variants

On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:48:02 +0100 (BST) ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote: I did this a few minutes ago. As expected, the previous owner transported the drive without lock and the medium inserted. Even worse: He powered it up in this state. There is a big headcrash. I.e. Track 0 has no longer any oxide... :-( At least I'll need a new medium. Probably heads? Or can the heads be cleaned and reused? Plan B: Get a RL11 and connect my knowen to work RL02. Plan C: Build some modernish hardware to emulate the RK05 drive. Or even better: Get some UniBus to SMD or ESDI controller. I have some nice SMD and ESDI disks around. Winchester disks are so much more reliable. -- \end{Jochen} \ref{http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/}