tisdag 31 maj 2016 skrev Al Kossow <[email protected]>: > > > On 5/31/16 12:07 AM, Mattis Lind wrote: > > tisdag 31 maj 2016 skrev shadoooo <[email protected] <javascript:;>>: > > > >> However if one > > sacrifice the entire drive and just use the mechanics it would be really > > dumb > > I don't get it. Why don't you do this with the TU58 mechanism? > > > Because I want it to be as generic as possible. If it is possible to move the heads I can read tapes that are written not only by a TU58 but also on a any DC100 compatible device. I dont know what sort of head HP made use of for their HP9825 and HP2645 for example.
I here compare what AJ have done with a Wangtek 5099 drive. Being able to read a tape written by a completely different drive (DEI) by just positionig the head correctly. The resulting data I then decoded in software and the original tar archive was recovered. Now the encoding was MFM in th S8000 not GCR which was used normally by the QIC-02 and SCSI drives with nine tracks and DC300. /Mattis
