[tallen]

I have a need (desire) to restore some older storage tapes from a Sony DDS-3 external drive (SDT-9000) that I used back in my irix days. Any chance I could use the emulator to perhaps 'tar' or 'bru' the dds tapes? I know it's a long shot.


History: I do have a scsii card that is recognized by a windows NT platform (has to be a 32-bit OS), but aside from getting the external tape drive to mount (without issue), I've had zero luck in getting the tape heads to move. I've taken great care of the device, so I'm fairly confident it will work. The device turns on and off quite nicely, no errors. I guess my big question is whether evaluator irix will recognize the device that's mounted to my pc, and for that matter whether I can perform a tar or bru. I do not recall using an interface when backing up and restoring to/from my irix systems, gosh it was a long time ago... but I do recall me tar'ing off the data from my drives to the dds unit.


What do you think? Reaching out here for some thoughts/opinions, thx.