To recover a TK50 What I do is run up the machine with the TK50 drive and mount the tape (not foreign), COPY the files to disk. Then I transfer the files to a SIMH machine and COPY them to a virtual tape (again not mounted foreign). Obviously the hard bit is getting a successful read of the TK50 tape.
Regards Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Chris Zach via > cctalk > Sent: 24 May 2020 02:42 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: TK50 cleaning and unloading issues, new thought: > > Ok. Any way to suck data off them to an image file? I have some Vax 8600 > diagnostics, would hate to just toss. > > C > > > On 5/23/2020 9:10 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > On 5/23/20 5:58 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > >> Tapes are shedding that much > > > > yup, they are garbage. > > > > high probability that you will make the first pass across the tape and > > it will stick when it reverses direction for the second pass > > > > the only TK drive I will even use is the TZ30 1/2 height because it is > > easy to get to the tape path to clean > > > > > >
