[KLUG Members] Travan TR-4 Tapes & IDE-Tape Driver

[Richard Zimmerman]

> > I won't go into the fact that Travan is a tragically flawed "technology"
> > and how incredibly expensive per megabyte it is,  since the user
> > probably already owns one.  If you don't, don't buy one.
> > There were format tools for fttapes,  you might want to chase those,
> > but I doubt it.

   I'm replying to my own reply here this morning but I did get a final
answer on TR-4 drives. I did a different search for "format TR-4 on linux"
this morning and among the search results was this:

>It's true that the TR-4 drives can't format their tapes, so you have to
>buy preformatted ones, but all the tapes sold are therefore preformatted.
>I use the Seagate version (TapeStor 8000, internal SCSI) with
>the standard mt commands and it behaves just like any other /dev/st0 or
>/dev/nst0. The only thing that approaches not working is that the media
>descriptor byte is not any previously known media (which is, of course,
>the correct thing to do).

   So, it's off to Staples I go......

    Richard


Richard Zimmerman                                     richard@knbpower.com
System Administrator                                   ke4rit@earthlink.net
K&B Transport, Inc.
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