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A Tape Drive. Mine.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nocturne@MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 2 22:11:08 1994
From: nocturne@MIT.EDU
To: sipb@MIT.EDU, sipb-prospectives@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 94 22:10:29 EST
I have this virtually-new tape drive for IBM clones made by Summit.
(The tape drive hangs off the floppy controller. It's not SCSI.)
I have an allegedly formatted 2120 tape for it, 3M brand. Also virtually new.
The software that came with the drive claims that the tape's volume table
(or something like that) is unreadable.
I'm looking for one of three things to help me figure out what is broken.
o Is there anyone who either has a spare QIC-40 or QIC-80 style tape that
they can lend me for an evening to see if my drive works?
o Is there anyone who has a tape drive that can use a 2120 tape who can
borrow my tape and try to format it and/or write to it?
o Is there anyone who has software which will explicitly format a QIC tape?
The software that came with the drive will not. (Linux software would be
ideal, but MS-DOS binaries would be okay too....)
- Eric
