On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 21:46, Jim Tarvid wrote: > On Tuesday 09 July 2002 09:26 pm, you wrote: > > Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE ATAPI-base > > tape drive and use it for Mandrake? > Only because they are ugly, unreliable and smell bad. > > If you overrule that advice -- > > Buy two, make sure the carts interchange, and verify the backups by loading > them on a second machine. > > I used them for years on an old RedHat box. Got them to work fairly well by > twidling parameters. It felt good to look at the carts on the shelf, but... > > I keep an old Debian box around for no other purpose than backing up other > servers. It has a CDRW so I can archive things in pieces. It has saved my ass > many times. > > Not once in 30 some years of computing has a tape been so kind. > > One of these days DVD-R media will be cheap. In the meantime, I keep carving > the world into 650MB pieces. > > Jim Tarvid
Jim, I've got a bunch of tapes here that were originally done on a Colorado 1400. They are DC-2120's (QIC 80) and some Verbatim MC3020's (QIC 3020). The 1400 drive is long gone and I've got to get the data off of them; what would you recommend as far as the best model of compatible tape drive to get, so I can read them? Would a Travan drive handle it or is there a better alternative? Also one of these Verbatims rewound to the end, and the tape snapped loose from the spool in the cartridge. Is there a service out there that will retrieve the tape data that you know of? Thanks -- LX
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