another tape drive problem

Wed Dec 7 17:40:22 PST 2005

> hi ya
> 
> anybody out there have a exabyte mammoth drive
> for 160mXL 8GB tapes

Note, unless I'm terribly mistaken, Mammoth drives (Exabyte 8900s) are 
not supported to read or write from 160m XL media.  The Mammoth supports
170m and 225m AME media.  The three drives that support the 160m XL 
media are the Exabyte 8705, Exabyte 8700, and Exabyte 8505 (but not the 
8500).  Whether you can read from the tapes or not also depends on what 
form of compression was used when the tape was written.  

You can trivially find these tape drives on eBay.

I've got a couple 8700s lying around, but since I'm outside California
these days, you can get drives faster (and better motivated) from eBay 
that you could from me.

-- 
Nick Christenson
npc at gangofone.com