31 Dec
2007
31 Dec
'07
3:15 p.m.
Jason T wrote:
I'm guessing that any modern *nix machine should
recognize it and be
able to read it. I planned on using a Sparc IPX or something
similarly portable when I get one formatted and loaded. In the
meantime, I have my laptop. Is there any chance of getting WinXP to
use this beast? I have a SCSI PCMCIA card on the laptop which I've
used to read old hard drives, but drivers will be the issue here. I
know in most cases the backup software needs to be able to handle the
drive as well as the OS - anyone tried to use Backup Exec or any of
the other big commercial s/w with one of these?
Tivoli Storage Manager still supports 9-track, and I think the IBM
9-track SCSI drive is a close relative of yours.
Failing that, if you have bootable Linux CD, it should deal with the
drive just fine.
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