24 May
2020
24 May
'20
1:06 a.m.
To recover a TK50 What I do is run up the machine with the TK50 drive and mount the tape
(not foreign), COPY the files to disk. Then I transfer the files to a SIMH machine and
COPY them to a virtual tape (again not mounted foreign). Obviously the hard bit is getting
a successful read of the TK50 tape.
Regards
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Chris Zach via
cctalk
Sent: 24 May 2020 02:42
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: TK50 cleaning and unloading issues, new thought:
Ok. Any way to suck data off them to an image file? I have some Vax 8600
diagnostics, would hate to just toss.
C
On 5/23/2020 9:10 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> On 5/23/20 5:58 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
>> Tapes are shedding that much
>
> yup, they are garbage.
>
> high probability that you will make the first pass across the tape and
> it will stick when it reverses direction for the second pass
>
> the only TK drive I will even use is the TZ30 1/2 height because it is
> easy to get to the tape path to clean
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