From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: peter@rulingia.com (Peter Jeremy) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:29:51 +1100 Subject: [TUHS] can anyone use QIC 6250 tape cartridges? In-Reply-To: <201301280322.r0S3M2Va016937@skeeve.com> References: <201301280322.r0S3M2Va016937@skeeve.com> Message-ID: <20130128052951.GE29105@server.rulingia.com> On 2013-Jan-28 05:22:02 +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. 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: