Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> > > > 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.
>
Mmmm, that's not what Aiwa and Seagate say about their TR4 drives - they
say they can read QIC-3010 and QIC-3020. In my own experience, my new
AIWA TR4 can read an old QIC-3020 tape I have somewhat (I can see the
files in the BRU listing), but with nasty errors. However, that tape
and the (Eagle Exabyte) TR3 tape drive were having problems, so the tape
may not be up-to-snuff. (I had unfortunately destroyed the Eagle drive
before I could make any more backups, but I won't go into how I did that
:-b) The format itself may be "unrelated", but that surely doesn't mean
you can't manufacture a drive that can read both...
However, since I can't absolutely say at this point that this drive or
others like it can read an old QIC-3020 tape *correctly*, I'd like to
hear from other folks... Hell, if you have an old QIC-3020 or QIC-3010
tape, you can send it to me and I'll try to read it! (BRU, tar, or at
last resort Seagate Backup for Win95, please). It might be the start of
a testing results web page, at best.
