another tape drive problem

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya nick

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Nick Christenson wrote:

> Note, unless I'm terribly mistaken, Mammoth drives (Exabyte 8900s) are 
> not supported to read or write from 160m XL media. 

it's the 160m XL tapes we need to read ...
they're tired of tapes and will be wanting to put it onto dvd :-)
	( too many drive problems :-)

> You can trivially find these tape drives on eBay.

yup.. presumbaly that's what they're going to be doing, but
i thought i'd rattle somebody's cage in here for some xmas $$$
for stuff that's been laying around

i have a 8200 laying around .. along with other tape drives
but not what i need for this particular instance ..
 
c ya
alvin