> At 12:26 PM 7/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >I have a drive that is identified on the front as a TZ85
> >and on the top as a TK85-AX. The drive has a non-standard
> >interface one the back. The interface is a high-density
> >40-pin connector in two rows of 10.
> >
> >Does anyone know what kind of connector is on this
> >drive?
>
> This is an example of an early DLT drive (its the one that came after the
> TK70) it takes CompacTape III carts and does 1.2GB/tape IIRC.
>
> The connector goes to a "bridge board", one does SCSI and one of them does
> DSSI. Yours apparently was hooked up to a SCSI board when installed in a
> chassis because it calls itself the TZ85, if it had been hooked to a DSSI
> board it would be called a TF85. They were fairly common in the 4000/xxx
> series. I think I have a DSSI bridge board somewhere from a drive that had
> been in one of those.
A DSSI bridge board would work for me. Do you want to sell yours?
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Eric Dittman
dittman_at_dittman.net
Received on Tue Jul 10 2001 - 14:35:22 BST