12 Feb
2013
12 Feb
'13
11:02 a.m.
From: Paxton Hoag
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 6:29 PM
If it is a DDS you can find auxillary drives that
should read DDS DAT
tapes. Like DLT there are 1 through 4 versions (i.e. DDS or DDS1,
DDS2, etc.), usually backward compatible.
From personal experience:
A DDS2 drive will read and write DDS1 or DDS2 tapes.
A DDS3 drive will read and write DDS2 or DDS3 tapes, and read DDS1.
A DDS4 drive will read and write DDS4 tapes, might read and write DDS3
tapes correctly, and might read DDS2 (maybe).
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/