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Re: What's a "Python 25501-XXX"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Jones)
Fri Apr 17 20:54:34 1998
From: "Tim Jones" <tjones@estinc.com>
To: " Raymond A. Ingles" <inglesra@frc.com>, <linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu>
Cc: <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 17:46:43 -0700
This is an Archive Python 2GB DDS-1 4mm DAT drive (my baby). It uses 60m or
90m DDS tapes. It will NOT use DDS-2 (MRS-2) 120m or DDS-3 (MRS-3) 125m
tapes.
It is accessed as /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0.
Tim Jones
-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond A. Ingles <inglesra@frc.com>
To: linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 3:09 PM
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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