Isn't this actually the same problem people have with their series I, II and IIx?Archiving sounds and data...............Replacing the drives with 3.5" ones is an option, but we could do WAY better. Come on guys, it's 2010, almost 2011.The upgrade for the lightpen and monitor is fantastic. (Not that I need it, but surely in the future I or the next owner will be very happy with it.)So, once again I call for help: "HELP". Please someone build a modern storage solution.Regards,Peter Kersten.--------------------------------------------------Carpe Ductum ! - (Seize the tape !)From: Gordon JC PearceSent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 8:54 AMSubject: RE: [Fairlight-CMI] What company brand is the streaming tape drive in the III?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
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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] What company brand is the streaming tape drive in the III?
2010-11-25 by Joe Sleator
I'm happy to pop the data from any working SCSI device, ST506 via ADAPTEC board, or 8" floppy onto the medium of your choice. No absolute guarantee but it's better insurance than an un-climate-controlled warehouse in Arizona.
> Replacing the drives with 3.5" ones is an option, but we could do WAY better. Come on guys, it's 2010, almost 2011.
What's stopping you? Seriously, tho, solid state (SD card) Series III/MFX storage is a current reality. AFAIK it can be made to work with any SCSI-able CMI.
Some work is happening on a flexible solid-state read/write floppy replacement for essentially all fairlights also. The existing ones for other vintage machines will read but not write, perhaps the firmware has been upgraded since I checked, but if it had I think one of the people on here might've noticed.
Cheers,
Joe
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Peter K. <synthserv@hotmail.com> wrote: