Assorted goodies & TK Question

From: Sergio Pedraja Cabo <CAA007216_at_mail.ono.es>
Date: Tue Apr 16 05:43:37 2002

If I understand it well, I could use one tabletop TK50-GA I have :-)
That's right ?

Oh, another more thing: Could I take one complete image of one
backup tape to put it in a "virtual tape image" format ?
I have one backup of Oracle for VMS (very old) and I'd like to recover
it and mount under one simulator like SIMH or so.

Greetings

Sergio

----- Mensaje Original -----
Remitente: "Greg Elkin" <beermat_at_bouncy-castle.demon.co.uk>
Fecha: Martes, Abril 16, 2002 11:32 am
Asunto: Re: Assorted goodies & TK Question

> > Has anyone ever gotten a "TK50-Z" in a 'TK SCSI' encosure to
> work with
> > any 'normal' scsi controller on a PC or something?
> >
> Yup, got a stripped one sat on a desk at the moment ;
> TK50 (ver E4) from a different system
> the SCSI-TK50 drive adaptor board from the (scrap) enclosure, set
> to ID5
> PC AT PSU to drive the adapter board & TK50 drive
> PC with Adaptec AHA1540CF, running DOS6.22 & Adaptecs DOS driver
> (ASPI4DOS.SYS) loaded.
>
> Using the ST program (v1.1, by John Wilson) I can read & write
> images from/to
> TK50 catridges happily.
>
> I have the thing nekkid as I need to clean the TK50s head using a
> Qtip with
> IPA on every few tapes I play with as they get gunked up from
> reading the old
> tapes quite quickly.
>
> Now, if someone happens to have an image of the Mvax-II full
> diagnostics that
> could be usefull...
>
>
> greg
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 16 2002 - 05:43:37 BST