[aklug] Forensics: looking for tape drive

[Royce Williams]

The drive is probably something along these lines:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Tape-Data-Cartridge-Drives/39976/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=%22sun%22+%228mm%22&_sop=15

... and the drive specs seem to be specific about tape capacity, so we'd
need to find a reasonably good match to hedge our bets.

Modern NetBSD should probably have both hardware support:

https://www.netbsd.org/support/hardware/scsipi.html

... as well as software support, using something like one of these options
(or Linux methods possible as well):

http://ask.metafilter.com/73464/Restore-from-SunOS-413-dump-tape-backup

Royce

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Royce Williams <royce at tycho.org> wrote:

> To be more precise ... what is the data capacity of the tapes? :)
>
> Royce
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> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Royce Williams <royce at tycho.org> wrote:
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>> I don't have the tape drive, but I can put out some feelers. What size
>> are the tapes?
>>
>> Royce
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>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Greg Schmitz <greg at amipa.org> wrote:
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>>>
>>> A local library made an inquiry yesterday about retrieving files from an
>>> 8mm backup tape recorded using Sun OS 4.1.3.  I'm assuming it was made
>>> using an Exabyte drive of one sort or another.  Does anybody have an old
>>> working drive or know of someone locally who might be able to retrieve the
>>> files?
>>>
>>
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