HP 88781A magnetic tape drive with 6250cpi tape. Controlled from Linux (tar command) over SCSI interface. These 10,5inch tape reels can hold up-to 170MB of data. More info about this tapedrive on my Hardware Museum: http://hardware.najd.cz/nej.php#a0538
>:( .. hate you for having such, and that much, geekie/retro gear!! hehehe!!... hate you playfully ^^ ... regards!
PD. are you from czech republic?
levogiro 4 months ago
@dougluce he's surely copying some files from and to the tape file system.
the same happens in any media, be it a cd, hard drive, floppy disk, a notepad, your cellphones contacts and a sheet of paper.....
In what situation do you see it "overflowing" a buffer?. it's a block device, and it's not working within the limits of a 16bit uint or a 32bits one, it's more like in the begining and to make it easier....look at the display...READING, WRITING,READING, WRITING,READING, WRITING......
laharl2k 6 months ago
I WANT ONE :D
Anyway, how does Ubuntu recognize the drive as? Like a floppy or a disk?
And what command did you use?
computerfreaq17 8 months ago
@dougluce cause its 9 track
mschwemberger11 1 year ago
kinda looks like something's overflowing a buffer; why's it jerking the tape back so many times?
dougluce 1 year ago