Re: [ccp4bb] Data from old tapes
Plenty of old drives at ESRF, for that purpose. If you don't find any other way, I could always read them there (the ESRF is "in my backyard") and burn the data to DVD for shipping (or upload to megaupload - but our gov't is hunting down people who use such services, they think megaupload and other such services are only for making illegal use of the internet such as transferring ripped commercial DVD's or CD's). Fred. VAN RAAIJ , MARK JOHAN wrote: did you try looking if there is a company offering data recovery services from these kind of tapes? if there is, there may not be a need to buy a tape drive yourself. Mark Quoting "Min, Xiaoshan": > Dear CCP4 community, > > We have a few datasets that reside in tapes (Sony QG-112M 8 mm tape > and Maxell DDS-2 4 mm tape). I have been searching the internet for > tape drives ( and cable) but haven't found anything. Does anyone > know where we can purchase compatible tape drives for these lovely > tapes? Or if you have a spare working set sitting in your graphic > room and would like to sell them, that will be wonderful. Thanks. > > > Xiaoshan Min. Ph.D. > Molecular Structure > Amgen San Francisco > 1120 Veterans Blvd. > South San Francisco, CA 94080 > > Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoléculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnología - CSIC c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid tel. 91 585 4616 email: mjvanra...@cnb.csic.es
Re: [ccp4bb] Data from old tapes
did you try looking if there is a company offering data recovery services from these kind of tapes? if there is, there may not be a need to buy a tape drive yourself.Mark Quoting "Min, Xiaoshan": > Dear CCP4 community, > > We have a few datasets that reside in tapes (Sony QG-112M 8 mm tape > and Maxell DDS-2 4 mm tape). I have been searching the internet for > tape drives ( and cable) but haven't found anything. Does anyone > know where we can purchase compatible tape drives for these lovely > tapes? Or if you have a spare working set sitting in your graphic > room and would like to sell them, that will be wonderful. Thanks. > > > Xiaoshan Min. Ph.D. > Molecular Structure > Amgen San Francisco > 1120 Veterans Blvd. > South San Francisco, CA 94080 > > Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoléculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnología - CSIC c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid tel. 91 585 4616 email: mjvanra...@cnb.csic.es
Re: [ccp4bb] Data from old tapes
My exabyte eliant 8 mm tape just went on the blink, so I've sent it to Pacific Data (http://www.pacificdata.com/tape_drive.html) for repair. They also sell tape drives, but looks like mainly newer ones. Probably have some old ones from the repair business. Search ebay for exabyte or "dat tape" and buy a junker, pacific data can probably fix it for $200-300. If the tape happens to be vax backup format, there is a utility available for reading them on unix/linux. I also have a procedure for using unix with a tape drive to make tape images for the Simh vax emulator running on linux or windows to read, you can then FTP files from the emulator to linux. This preserves a little more of the metadata than unix vmsbackup utility eab Min, Xiaoshan wrote: Dear CCP4 community, We have a few datasets that reside in tapes (Sony QG-112M 8 mm tape and Maxell DDS-2 4 mm tape). I have been searching the internet for tape drives ( and cable) but haven’t found anything. Does anyone know where we can purchase compatible tape drives for these lovely tapes? Or if you have a spare working set sitting in your graphic room and would like to sell them, that will be wonderful. Thanks. Xiaoshan Min. Ph.D. Molecular Structure Amgen San Francisco 1120 Veterans Blvd. South San Francisco, CA 94080
[ccp4bb] Data from old tapes
Dear CCP4 community, We have a few datasets that reside in tapes (Sony QG-112M 8 mm tape and Maxell DDS-2 4 mm tape). I have been searching the internet for tape drives ( and cable) but haven't found anything. Does anyone know where we can purchase compatible tape drives for these lovely tapes? Or if you have a spare working set sitting in your graphic room and would like to sell them, that will be wonderful. Thanks. Xiaoshan Min. Ph.D. Molecular Structure Amgen San Francisco 1120 Veterans Blvd. South San Francisco, CA 94080
