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What's a "Python 25501-XXX"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond A. Ingles)
Fri Apr 17 18:05:05 1998
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:20:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: " Raymond A. Ingles" <inglesra@frc.com>
To: linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
A friend gave me a used SCSI tape drive. He got it from someone who
claimed it was broken, but my friend says that guy's pretty clueless and
probably just didn't know how to get it to work. I'm willing to give it a
shot, so I plugged it in to my SCSI bus and booted up. Lo and behold, it
was recognized:
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 11, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c825 detected
ncr53c825-0: rev=0x02, base=0xfbfdf000, io_port=0xe800, irq=12
ncr53c825-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
ncr53c825-0: restart (scsi reset).
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 2.4a
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 25501-XXX Rev: 2.96
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Now, here's the problem. I don't have any tapes for it, and I'm not even
sure what kind of tapes it takes. (I'm used to my old QIC-80 Colorado 250
floppy tape drive.)
Does anyone know anything about this drive? (If so, does anyone have
any opinions, good or bad, about it?0 Is it a DAT drive, or Travan, or
what? How could I go about figuring that out? I don't mind buying a test
tape to see if it functions, but I'd like to get the type right the first
time. Thanks in advance!
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com
"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright
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