HP 7980S scsi 9-track

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu Oct 3 01:27:18 2002

Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
>>Does anyone have info on this beastie? I'm trying to convince it to be
>> nice to me and lock itself to 1600bpi, but it doesn't wanna play... :(

Bruce Lane wrote:
> I had an 88170 at one time.

An 88780, probably.

> Bear in mind that you'll need some fairly specialized (and expensive --
> in the $300 region) software if you want to use that drive on any sort
> of PC.

Someone should have warned me about that before I started using one with
no special software whatsoever. :-)

It responds to plain old SCSI tape commands, so any software that talks
to SCSI tape drives should work.
Received on Thu Oct 03 2002 - 01:27:18 BST