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Re: What's a "Python 25501-XXX"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Doidge,WSU/Dir of MIS)
Fri Apr 17 20:02:32 1998
From: "Robert Doidge,WSU/Dir of MIS" <robert@wsulaw.edu>
To: " Raymond A. Ingles" <inglesra@frc.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:49:10 -0800PST
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980417100817.25660E-100000@jupiter>
Raymond-
It is a 4mm DAT tape drive, made by Archive (later Conner) ((later
Seagate). It is a DDS-1 drive and will take 60m or 90m tapes. It
will not work with 120m DDS-2 tapes. The drive does not offer
hardware compression, but is reliable. (keep a DAT cleaning tape
handy!)
I have two such devices running, one for nearly the past five years.
One is on a Novell 4.1 system, using BackupExec. The other is on a
Redhat Linux system, using BRU.
Robert Doidge
Western State University
> 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
> Subject: What's a "Python 25501-XXX"?
>
> 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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