Is it possible? 2004-05-27 - By Eric Deren
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Leoung,
Sounds bad. If it's any consolation, the tape probably wasn't any good
before it got grease on it; I recently went back to pull some data off
of several SGI tar'd DATs from 1995-1997 and they were all corrupt.
They've been stored in a cool dry location and were tested before they
were put into storage four years ago. Methinks the format isn't as
solid as the tape manufacturers would lead us to believe.
I'm hoping that my DVDROM backups withstand the test of time.
-Eric
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From: "digimata" <digimata@(protected)>
To: <XSI@(protected)>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: Is it possible?
> Anthony,
>
> Thanks for your input.
> I have given up.
> I do have a an old Indigo hanging around and I was
> able to put the system back together and running.
> Unfortunately I forgot my 150 tape drive was defective, it was giving
> me I/O errors
> I tried a few times and when I pull the tape out it had grease on it.
I
> think
> it is history. Oh well, it would have been nice to get those models
back.
>
> Leoung
>
> Anthony Rossano wrote:
>
> >what kind of tape? 150 MB is not big.
> >DAT was the most common drive used on SGIs. I have some experience
> >trying to use SCSI DAT drives on Windows and its not fun.
> >Plus, the Irix tar implementation did reverse byte ordering and had
> >bigger block sizes and stuff like that, so you really need a command
> >line tar tool (and dd) to make it work.
> >
> >here's the easiest;
> >1) Find someone with an SGI hanging around you can borrow.
> >There are a LOT of them in closets.
> >
> >2) Use a linux machine
> >
> >3) Use a Max with OSX, it has a full command line tar implementation
> >
> >4) Pay someone 50$ to do it, who has the SGI running and a DAT drive,
> >etc.
> >ATR
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 26 May 2004 13:25:08 -0500, digimata wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Here is a silly question, I have some models I would like to
retrieve from
> >>150 MB data tape that was backup in Iris on an Indigo. Can I
retrieve
> >>them on a PC?
> >>Is there a magic utility? or is it wishful thinking?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Leoung
> >>
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