Re: _Old_ tape drive type.

On 5 Nov 2002, Paul Furness wrote:

> inch thick), and may be all the same capacity. some of them are 3M
> tapes, type number DC6150 (marked as 150MB) and DC600A (marked as 60MB).

I transferred a bunch of these to CD a few years ago.  We have a SCSI
drive in an external enclosure which can read 60M/150M and write 525M
tapes. We attached the drive to a PowerPC Linux system running YellowDog
and had no problem extracting the tapes (well, the ones that were still
readable, that is).  I was delighted to find an old source file I had
lost.

We also have another SCSI drive gathering dust on the shelf which can read
60M and read/write 150M.  It was used on a Motorola SysV Unix machine and
does not have an enclosure and has not been tested on Linux (But should
work being SCSI and all.)  We could sell it real cheap if those are the
only sizes you need - I'll Cc the boss.

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