25 Nov
2019
25 Nov
'19
7:42 a.m.
I just failed with a Sun DAT drive. Cable and card bought online,
recognized by the mt command, but all it does is eject tapes.
I am going to get a friend to come play with rubber bands and WD40 but
I'm not hopeful.
Bunch of data going to be rotting on tape.
-G
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:41 AM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, Larry McVoy wrote:
Good luck with that. I had a 4/470 that had an
exabyte, wheeled it out
of building 5 at Sun and into building 9 at SGI and the tapes wouldn't
read back.
I've had all sorts of problems with those drives. Fortunately there was
an Exabyte agent not far from us, so they got a lot of our business.
-- Dave