16 Apr
2012
16 Apr
'12
11:08 a.m.
On 4/16/12 10:34 AM, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
I could also need some ideas how to get a QIC drive
capable of
reading and writing DC300XL QIC cartridges hooked up to a PC
with BSD or Linux running as in some point in the future.
I must be able to copy the system tapes (reading + writing) with
a PC.
Just because the cartridge fits into a QIC drive doesn't mean that
what was written on it is in the same GCR encoding format used by
them.
3M cartridges and drives existed before the QIC standards, and there
are many incompatible formats that were written on them. If you look
in DEI or 3M documenatation, the on-tape format is not the same as
used on QIC drives.