15 Jan
2004
15 Jan
'04
4:41 p.m.
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.
The 8500 should work fine as well, according to documentation I have. 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.