Imation DS2120 on google brings up a page which says QIC-80. Which I assume is different from DDS.
Below is what I wrote before I looked at google.... IIRC you can put it in. DDS uses pins and crap in the tape drive to determine what sort of tape it is. If you compare the tape very closely to a new one, it will be slightly different in some detail. I'm a bit hazy on this: I think there will be 4 closely,evenly spaced holes on the bottom of the tape, different ones will be closed off on tapes of different standards. Cleaning tapes will also be different. hope this helps. cheers, Woody On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 09:13:14AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > Just had an odd request - someone has asked me to extract the data off what > looks to be an old DDS-style tape cartridge. It's an Imation/3M branded > tape, with the following useful information: > > DC2120 > 307.5ft (93.7m) > 120MB > > It's got the metal base and accoutrements of the DDS-[3,4,or whatever it is] > tapes I use at work. > > So, can I drop this into a modern DDS tape drive and read it? (That'd be > cool). If not, does anyone have a tape drive I could borrow for a few > minutes to get the data off? $BEVERAGE_OF_CHOICE can be supplied to helpful > parties, if desired. > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > #include <disclaimer.h> > Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence > http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
