QIC tape drives

[worley at world.std.com (Dale R Worley)]

   From: Dan Demus <dan at Paragon.COM>

	 From: Dan Demus <dan at Paragon.COM>

	 Does anyone have any experience with 4mil/8mil SCSI dat on Linux?

      From: Dale Worley <worley at world.std.com>

      I'm using a Bus Toaster PCMCIA SCSI controller to drive an Exabyte 8mm
      drive, and everything works just like it's supposed to.  You do have
      to get card services working, and build the loadable drivers.

      (BTW, technically, an 8mm tape isn't a DAT tape.)

   That`s interesting Dale.  Loadable drivers are awesome eh?  I`ve used
   them for plip.

Yeah, loadable drivers are fairly cool, but I haven't had enough time
to go through the documentation to see how wonderful the
implementation is.

   So the same 4mil media can be used in a audio dat tape player?  If so,
   do any of the 4mil tape drives have audio capabilities?  Or has
   everyone decided that storing digital audio on magnetic medium is
   crummy because the media naturally degrades over time.

I'm pretty sure the 4mm media (not "mil" -- a mil is 1/1000 inch) are
the same tapes as audio DATs.  I would guess that most computer DAT
players have audio capability -- almost all CD-ROM drives can play
audio CDs as well.

Dale

Dale Worley						worley at world.std.com
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