Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations strongm on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Recent content by trebor129
-
Need help getting Sony DAT tape drive to work on Irix 6.5
Update. I gave up on that drive and got an SDT-9000. I put it in an external enclosure and it powers on but the computer does not recognize it either. In theory, should the computer just recognize a new tape device or do you need to manually do something? I tried it with and without internal...- trebor129
- Post #2
- Forum: General UNIX discussion
-
Need help getting Sony DAT tape drive to work on Irix 6.5
I am trying to restore a DAT backup from 1996. I borrowed an SGI Octane with Irix 6.5. I have the proper SCSI cable and terminator. The DAT drive I have laying around is a Sony SDT-5000 in a generic enclosure. The SGI does not recognize it. Is this drive supposed to work with SGI? If not, what...- trebor129
- Thread
- Replies: 1
- Forum: General UNIX discussion
