Hi!

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> > > drives any more, so I'm wondering if there is a
> > > new drive with larger capacity which will read the
> > > data off their old Travan 1.6/3.2 tape, and which
> > > functions well under Linux.  Any suggestions?  I
 
> My tapes are QIC-3020, and yes, I think I'll go
> for an 8Mb TR4 drive, from Seagate or Aiwa, and an
> SCSI controller.

Note that TR-4 cannot read TR-1, TR-2 nor TR-3 formats ---
they are completely unrelated apart from being QIC tapes.[1]
So essentially, you cannot upgrade and still expect to read your
old tapes.  Sorry.

-Wolfgang

[1] Unlike TR-[123], which are downward compatible

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