Fairlight-CMI

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:11 +0800, David Crocombe wrote:
> Emulex was the controller / adapter board from SCSI to QUIC24.
> My tape drive was an Archive with a QIC24 interface.
> 
> Be very careful about the tapes.
> It may be a tape issue and not a drive issue.
> Old data tapes can get the tape layer stuck together etc.
> 
> I've spoken to a data recovery place here in Australia.
> They advise that they bake the tapes before data recovery to stop
> oxide shedding. 
> They also change the rubber drive band inside the data cartridge
> itself before running it.
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> David Crocombe. 

This is a recurring theme on the Classic Computer mailing list, too ;-)

Check out the archives on http://www.classiccmp.org/lists.html and
search back through them.  It might be worth contacting some of the
people on the list that have had problems with QIC tapes to see how they
solved them.

Gordon MM0YEQ