Odd PDP-11 tape related question

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Thu Jan 15 16:41:07 2004

> > I managed to dig up a TZ30 and a couple TK50's last night, though I didn't
> > get a chance to try it. If an Exabyte 8200 works just fine, I think I might
> > try the Exabyte 8500, as I can hook it up to my PDP-11/23+ fairly easy
> > (hooking an external drive up to my /73 as I mentioned would require
> > rewiring the SCSI Bus). I just wish I'd thought to dig out a couple 8mm
> > tapes while I was digging.
>
> The 8500 should work fine as well, according to documentation I have.

Cool, I'll probably dig up an 8505 for the PDP-11 then (I really need a 1/2
height drive for it), and hook a 8500 back up to my VMS server. As I mentioned
in the post last night, I got things working with the TZ30 and a TK50 tape,
but I'd prefer to use tapes that are a lot newer, plus the TZ30 is a pain to
clean.

>
> > BTW, what do you mean by "didn't want to work". Do you mean that it wouldn't
> > work at all with your PDP-11/84 and CMD controller? The TLZ06 works just
> > fine on my PDP-11/73 with Viking controller. It's just with RSTS/E ANSI
> > tapes that I seem to be having a problem.
>
> I just tried with RSX, using BRU, DMP and INI. With DMP I tried a tape I
> wrote on another machine with tar.
>
> I got some funny error. I can send you the RSX error log of the occasion,
> if that makes you happy. Both BRU and INI will create small blocks.
>
> Btw, I also created small blocks on the NetBSD machine I have a DDS drive
> on, and it went just fine there.

No need to send the log, I was just curious, as I know someone that is using
TLZ06's successfully on multiple PDP-11's. Basically all he works with is
RSX11.

                Zane
Received on Thu Jan 15 2004 - 16:41:07 GMT

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