Off topic discussion • Re: 4mm DAT drive on a Pi

I'd strongly recommend checking the inside of the tape drive before putting a tape in. There is a high chance the rubber rollers are degraded and gooey. Cleaning the head would be a good idea as well.

Great tip! I should know that from dealing with old rubber rollers on other ancient stuff, but a reminder is ALWAYS good!

I know there is a SCSI storage emulator called (IIRC) BlueSCSI that uses an RP2040 to emulate a SCSI disk. I wonder if something like that could be adapted as a USB/SCSI interface.

The problem is the tape drive. BlueSCSI and ZuluSCSI do both support being a SCSI initiator but don't support tape drives. PiSCSI doesn't seem to do it either.

I had a look at BlueSCSI...looks pretty interesting, but I'm hard-pressed to see how it's going to be helpful for this.

Statistics: Posted by bls — Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:51 am

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