Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 15:19:07 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@nebula.tbe.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM 3480 tapes and DLT? Message-ID: <19980117151907.59725@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <199801162215.QAA12439@PeeCee.tbe.com>; from "David Kelly" on Fri Jan 16 16:15:34 GMT 1998 References: <199801162215.QAA12439@PeeCee.tbe.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 16), David Kelly said: > Somebody wants to send data to me on an IBM 3480 tape. I'm not > familiar with that model. A bit of web surfing gets matches also > mentioning TKZ60 tapes. In a dusty corner of my brain, I recall the > DLT was a modern TK-50. > > I have access to DLT tape drives. I don't have my hands on a 3480 > tape. Any chance a DLT drive will read a 3480? Nope. Although the DLT and 3480 carts are about the same size and are one-reel units, they are very different, both physically in how the tape is unspooled, and how the data's written on the tape. If someone wants to send you a 3480 tape, chances are it's a mainframe shop; They use 9-track tapes and 3480/3490/3490e's almost exclusively (we're a data processing company and handle a couple dozen of each type of tape a day, from many different clients). If the owner of the 3480 has access to a PC and a modem, see if they can zip the file and send it to you electronically; 3480's have a max native capacity of only 220 MB. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com
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