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

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As long as Travans are on the brain:  I personally own a Travan (SCSI)
because it was free.  At work, I just got rid of two travans (going to users) that
were in servers.  My Travan at home, while backing up, gets too hot to touch
for more than 15 seconds.  The work tape drives are in a room with climate
control, and both have exceedinly large amounts of air flow over the tape
drive itself, so it's more difficult to tell if it is warm.  Is that normal? 
Should my travan be so hot?  Is there something wrong with it?  It operates
normally (although it doesn't "see" 10/20 GB tapes)and I can extract data from
it, I just worry that it's so hot.

Ah, I am so excited.  I just replaced dual travans with an IBM DDS-4 tape
drive.  Let's see...  Travan speed: 30-40 MB a minute. IBM speed: 150-170
MB/minute.  Ah.......

adam

> > > 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
> 
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