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- From: timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 1/4" tape drives?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.000133.21426@ico.isc.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:01:33 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.222745.4552@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
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- In article <1993Jan26.222745.4552@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> wood@havedash.aer.loral.com (Bill Wood) writes:
- > Does anyone know if it is possible to connect a 1/4" tape drive
- >(150Mb QIC-150 DC-6150 tapes) to an ISA 486 system? These are the
- >larger tapes, not the small DC-2xxx tapes. Specifically,
- >I would like to be able to read tar tapes from a Sun SPARCstation
- >on a PC.
- >
- > Any help in locating vendors which sell the tapes, controllers and/or
- >software necessary would be most appreciated.
- >
- > Please respond by e-mail so I don't miss your response in this high-volume
- >newsgroup.
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >Bill Wood
- >wood@havedash.aer.loral.com
- >
-
- If you're getting a SCSI tape drive, you might want to get an Adaptec
- 1542B host adapter. Then you'll want GNUtar for DOS which is available
- from an ftp site:
-
- ftp.uu.net:systems/msdos/simtel20/dskutl/aspibin.zip
-
- I am consistently able to read tapes that I've written from a SPARC.
- However, I'm having a bit of trouble getting files with names longer
- than the 8+3 DOS format.
-
- Tim
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