[DUG] Help: can anyone read 8mm Data Cartridges?

Stephen Barker Steve at webdata.co.nz
Sun Jan 27 20:39:50 NZDT 2008


Hi Giovanni
 
I have a 8mm tape drive here (scsi) - hasn't been used for a few years but
was working before I retired it. I only used it on a NT4 server using
standard ntbackup. I'm not sure if that would read your tape though.
 
hth,
Steve


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From: Moretti, Giovanni [mailto:G.Moretti at massey.ac.nz] 
Sent: Friday, 25 January 2008 3:50 p.m.
To: delphi at listserver.123.net.nz
Subject: [DUG] Help: can anyone read 8mm Data Cartridges?


A colleague  of mine  has some  research data that exists only as an archive
on an 8mm data cartridge.

You know the story - support staff back it up and give him the tape. He (not
unreasonably) assumes that if he gives them back the tape they would recover
his data. Years pass, they junk all the older equipment ...

I know it's a long shot but can anyone read data from a 

       8mm-DL 112M Computer Grade Data Cartridge. 

If you'd be prepared to dump the contents onto a CD/DVD/FTP site (whatever's
easiest for you), he'd be enormously grateful.

The tape was written (we think) using some form of DEC Unix/Ultrix and is (I
hope) in TAR format. Any form of dump would be better than a cartridge and
no reader :-)

Thanks
Giovanni  

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