From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte [ really bulk erasing ]
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 19:34:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201911250334.xAP3Y5T0098307@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1911251426480.33542@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Dave Horsfall writes:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2019, George Michaelson wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> They're worse than 9-track tapes, and that's saying something :-)
>
> Oh, if you must use one, make sure to use data-quality tapes, not the
> cheaper media.
>
> -- Dave
I have several generations of these too. I also have several crates of
9-track tapes, QIC-24 tapes, QIC-150 tapes, and various generations of
DDS DAT tapes. I don't think that I have anything worth keeping on these
as I've transfered worthwhile stuff to newer media over time. Hard to
believe that the entire contents of a 9-track tape fit in a negligible
amount of memory these days.
The thing that's kept me from getting these out of my basement is that
I'd prefer to erase them first, just in case. Does anybody have experience
with a decent bulk tape eraser?
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-25 3:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-24 22:39 [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte Richard Salz
2019-11-24 22:50 ` Jim Capp
2019-11-24 22:52 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-24 22:58 ` Rico Pajarola
2019-11-24 23:45 ` Clem Cole
2019-11-25 1:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25 1:42 ` George Michaelson
2019-11-25 3:24 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-25 17:07 ` Al Kossow
2019-11-25 17:40 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-25 17:45 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-25 17:49 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-11-25 18:34 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-25 21:08 ` John P. Linderman
2019-11-25 21:11 ` ron
2019-11-25 21:30 ` John P. Linderman
2019-11-25 21:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25 18:29 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-25 3:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25 3:34 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2019-11-25 3:59 ` [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte [ really bulk erasing ] William Pechter
2019-11-25 15:25 ` Clem Cole
2019-11-25 17:13 ` Al Kossow
2019-11-25 4:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25 3:36 ` [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte Larry McVoy
2019-11-25 22:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-26 1:38 ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-11-25 22:46 ` Dennis Boone
2019-11-25 22:57 ` Henry Bent
2019-11-27 19:31 ` John Foust
2019-11-27 20:56 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-27 21:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25 18:18 [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte [ really bulk erasing ] Norman Wilson
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