Tape Belts, was: FTGH: FH disk drives (and one HH) - Toronto + Scotch DC 300XL tapes

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sat Oct 30 22:00:50 CDT 2021


On 10/30/21 7:38 PM, Jonathan Chapman via cctalk wrote:
> The belts are more or less all failing at this point, even on the newer multi-gigabyte QICs. I finally had to stop extracting the good ones from newer tapes, boiling, and reusing because that was not reliable anymore. Seems everyone is using these nowadays:
> 
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08536J6Y5
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan

I've had great success using these on DC600-sized cartridges, including
Magnus tapges:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08536J6Y5

They're clear seamless polyurethane.

--Chuck



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