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Jon Elson
Guest
Hello,
I have developed a need to read some archival mag tapes on
a newer computer system. I had a SCSI - Pertec adapter off
a scrapped Cipher tape drive, and hooked it up to my CDC
keystone drive, and it appeared to be working for a while.
Then, the adapter stopped passing its built-in self test.
It was most likely SCSI-I anyway, so might not have worked
well with an Adaptec interface and Linux.
So, does anyone know a reasonable way to hook a streaming
9-track drive with Pertec formatted interface to a computer?
I'm not terribly concerned with speed, and don't need to write,
only read.
I can probably hack up my own software, so I don't need it to
interface to any file system, either.
These tapes are mostly going to be ANSI-D, but some might be in
VMS backup format.
I figure I could whip up an FPGA to handle the Pertec interface,
I've never done it, but I think it is pretty straightforward.
Thanks for any ideas,
Jon
I have developed a need to read some archival mag tapes on
a newer computer system. I had a SCSI - Pertec adapter off
a scrapped Cipher tape drive, and hooked it up to my CDC
keystone drive, and it appeared to be working for a while.
Then, the adapter stopped passing its built-in self test.
It was most likely SCSI-I anyway, so might not have worked
well with an Adaptec interface and Linux.
So, does anyone know a reasonable way to hook a streaming
9-track drive with Pertec formatted interface to a computer?
I'm not terribly concerned with speed, and don't need to write,
only read.
I can probably hack up my own software, so I don't need it to
interface to any file system, either.
These tapes are mostly going to be ANSI-D, but some might be in
VMS backup format.
I figure I could whip up an FPGA to handle the Pertec interface,
I've never done it, but I think it is pretty straightforward.
Thanks for any ideas,
Jon