That makes it a lot easier. If it were tapes from an old NT server then I'd tell you to start trawling eBay for an old copy of Backup Exec and a NT box.Some are HP, some are Digital (TLZ06 and TLZ07). Since I worked for DEC at the time, guessing that they were written on a DEC TLZ-something drive.
The 3 mail tapes are labeled as tar format. The remaining tapes are of format "mystery" Image may be NSFW.
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I'd strongly recommend checking the inside of the tape drive before putting a tape in. There is a high chance the rubber rollers are degraded and gooey. Cleaning the head would be a good idea as well.
The problem is the tape drive. BlueSCSI and ZuluSCSI do both support being a SCSI initiator but don't support tape drives. PiSCSI doesn't seem to do it either.I know there is a SCSI storage emulator called (IIRC) BlueSCSI that uses an RP2040 to emulate a SCSI disk. I wonder if something like that could be adapted as a USB/SCSI interface.
Statistics: Posted by trejan — Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:01 pm
