[TUHS] can anyone use QIC 6250 tape cartridges?

[TUHS] can anyone use QIC 6250 tape cartridges?

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi. I have two QIC 6250 tape cartridges that have been in (I hope) dry
boxes for over 15 years. I suspect they're still usable but have no
equipment with which to test them or try to read them.

It'd be nice to get a CD back with copies of what's on them if that's
possible, but that'd be icing on the cake.

Drop me a note and we'll see if we can figure something out for mailing
them.

Thanks,

Arnold

[TUHS] can anyone use QIC 6250 tape cartridges?

[Larry McVoy]

Heh.  I did a raid thing over a bunch of QIC 150 drives.  Called it
safe(1).  Worked pretty well.

Like the 9 track, no way to read them, good luck.

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 05:22:02AM +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Hi. I have two QIC 6250 tape cartridges that have been in (I hope) dry
> boxes for over 15 years. I suspect they're still usable but have no
> equipment with which to test them or try to read them.
> 
> It'd be nice to get a CD back with copies of what's on them if that's
> possible, but that'd be icing on the cake.
> 
> Drop me a note and we'll see if we can figure something out for mailing
> them.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Arnold
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[TUHS] can anyone use QIC 6250 tape cartridges?

[Jim Capp]

Aharon,

I still have drives that will read QIC 6150/6250.  Contact me off-list if you're interested in data extraction / conversion. 

Cheers,

Jim




On Jan 27, 2013, at 10:22 PM, Aharon Robbins <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:

> Hi. I have two QIC 6250 tape cartridges that have been in (I hope) dry
> boxes for over 15 years. I suspect they're still usable but have no
> equipment with which to test them or try to read them.
> 
> It'd be nice to get a CD back with copies of what's on them if that's
> possible, but that'd be icing on the cake.
> 
> Drop me a note and we'll see if we can figure something out for mailing
> them.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Arnold
> _______________________________________________
> TUHS mailing list
> TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org
> https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs

[TUHS] can anyone use QIC 6250 tape cartridges?

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2013-Jan-28 05:22:02 +0200, Aharon Robbins <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:
>Hi. I have two QIC 6250 tape cartridges that have been in (I hope) dry
>boxes for over 15 years. I suspect they're still usable but have no
>equipment with which to test them or try to read them.

I don't think I can directly help you but did something similar
recently with very mixed results.  I found a box of QIC-6150 tapes of
a similar vintage and tried to read them.  Whilst I could read some
of the tapes, most of them failed in 2 ways:
1) The tensioning band broke.  Where I thought the contents would be
   interesting, I opened the cases & swapped the band for one that
   worked.
2) There's no error correction (and I'm not sure how good the error
   detection is).  In many cases, I'd get lots of retries and then
   some resultant data - but if I tried again, I'd get a different
   length result.

I also had a couple of tapes that were visibly moldy - I didn't take
them out of their protective cases.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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