Of course, all linux software products are absolutely free to use. I have an old colorado 250mb tape drive, which connects to the pcs floppy controller, that id like to use to read a qic80 cartridge. After rummaging a bit through my attic, i realized that i actually own a tape drive thats capable of reading qic150 tapes. Free data recovery software recovers backup files created using ntbackup and backup exec by symantec and supports backup files created using. A new breed of tape drives that attach to the ide interface is coming, but at the moment, linux support is minimal. The tapes were qic150 cartridges specifically sony d6150. The last linux kernel that included the ftape module qic80 support was 2. The cyclom kernel supports the cyclades cyclomy driver. Atapi tape drives are physically installed and configured just like any other atapiide device. The strange thing was that it was connected to the floppy connector. Problems with irwin and qic4080 tape drives irwin or qic4080 tape drive not recognized at bootup difficulty backing up irwin and qic4080 tape drives tape formatting fails incorrect device nodes for wangtek qic80 tape drives configuring video adapters adding serial and parallel ports about serial ports. The block size is the number of bytes that are read and written at a time. Ldj supports being run as a diskless system, or can be used as a starting point for an install. Qic drives that run off the parallel port do not have a driver for linux at this time.
The actions list is taken from the context menu items. Linux distros with support for xenix file system the system involved also has a tape backup, colorado 350 qic80could i use linux to read the data files from tape and write to cd. Both qic40 and qic80 tape drives connect through the floppy drive controller cable, so if your tape drive is not connected throught the floppy drive cable, you probably cannot use ftape. Windows recovery software is a fully automated backup recovery solution, designed to deal with inaccessible backup files created using windows utilities and help users restore entire content from corrupt or damaged bkf files. Its an old nec direction, rocking a 400mhz pentium ii and 384megs of ram.
I have never done this but when i compiled my first kernel i had to figure out the difference between ide tape support and floppy tape support. A80 sdk includes source code for the linux kernel and uboot, as well as buildroot, and various allwinner tools. I believe i did the backup with the utility included in windows 95. Finally, we have categorized the best linux software applications based on the performance, ease of use and quality.
Jazz, and zip, cddvd rom, colorado tape backup qic 80 i think, scsi controller, rs232 com port connected via null. I havent used windows 98 or dos in ages, so i apologise in advance if i ask relatively stupid questions. Qic4080 tapes must be formatted before they are used, just like floppies. In the following table, you can find a list of programs that can open files with. I moved to sf in the late 80s and was amazed by the bbs scene. Ive been using linux since linus offered it free on a qic80 tape. Lately ive done a bit of disro hoping, looking for a polished experience. Supports both 64 and 32 bit efi firmware as well as bios.
Xp undelete scans your system and list all deleted files or directories. I know i used a dos tar on qic0236 in the late 80s to move files to sco unix machines. Isnt there a new parallel port driver that just recently came out. Thank you for licensing the qantel qicpc ii software product. There is no linux support for drives that attach to the parallel port. Sometimes the floppy cable is routed to another hardware. Presumably there is a count option, and that is specified in units of the block size. The unrivalled, high speed rodos dispersion empowers image analysis to master dry and even agglomerating powders now as fine as 1.
The supplied software announcement contains all the product update information. The drive is an archive viper 2150s, which uses a scsi interface. Need to restore from tape solutions experts exchange. Linux dj ldj is a bootable cd linux distribution based off of debian gnulinux designed for the purpose of setting up music casting servers. The soundblaster kernel supports the sbpro and sb16. Details about colorado 250 250mb 350mb 120mb 80mb qic40 qic80 qic tape drive with software. The product name, description, and company name are taken from the version information of the. From the outside i could already see that it would need physical repairs, so i opened it up and found a harrowing sight. Terminal sessions are tabbed, allowing the user to click a tab to switch sessions. Ive also noticed allwinner a80 datasheet is available, but with the. Im fairly sure the ftape driver supports your iomega ditto drive, and that drive should support the qic80 cart.
A single qic file contains a collection of files, much like a zip file. In linux, the way to communicate with such drives is using the ftape driver, which used to be included with the linux kernel. Qic40 and qic80 drives connected to the floppy disk controller. Safely boot multiple windows and linux systems on both gpt and mbr disks.
Tr2 was designed by 3m, but they never marketed it. This undelete software is designed to recover and restore deleted files from hard drives, floppy drives, and other types of fixed media. Hi another idea would be to use linux a livecd distro like knoppix. You can probably find all sorts of gems on whatever is left of the simtel archives or equivalent. Old qic80 tapes anyone know a tape drive that has drivers for 2003 or xp windows. Qic117, qic4080, qic30103020 qicwide drives most tape drives using the floppy controller should work. Ubiquiti may, from time to time and at its sole option, provide patches, bug fixes, corrections, updates, upgrades, support and maintenance releases or other modifications to the software, including certain external software, which items shall be deemed part of the software and external software hereunder. The kernel was compiled with qic117 support and the ftape. The ftape driver interfaces to qic40, qic80, qic3010 and qic3020 compatible drives, and to the iomega ditto 2gb and ditto max drives.
Iomega ditto 800 internal tape drive with a 34pin floppy interface will work with dos, win3. Backup to scsi dat drives drivers and backup software. The ftape program is a tape device interface meant for qic117, qic40, and qic80 drives only. For an ide qic 80 drive you will probably have to do a kernel compile and include ide tape support in the kernel. Various dedicated controllers colorado fc10fc20, mountain mach2, iomega tape controller ii are also supported here. Begin linux infosheet part 11 linux information sheet michael k. Our backup software keep track of which tapes were in the drive as well as on which tape any given file resided.
I have used a windows based utility to look at the tapes but i can only see certain types of file and i get some odd results if i try a restore. Please note that qic tapes are somewhat notorious for the rubber drive bands in the cassettes and drive having turned to goo or dried out. Its hard work monitoring and debugging linux performance problems, but its easier with the right tools at the right time. Travan tr1 cartridges offer a 400 mb native capacity with a 0. Since the drive is scsi, i would need a scsi host adapter card to interface with it. Can read qic80 colorado jumbo 250 and qic80xl colorado jumbo 350 tapes. All modules are digitally signed for your security.
I found some old qic 80 tapes that i had recorded about 15 years ago. Weve designed qicware as a highlyscalable systems tool that lets our customers take advantage of all the. The 3 12 inch size is designed for smaller data storage or an extra computer tapedrive. The qicpicl series is winning with its new pulsed light source, improved image quality and an outstanding measuring performance for fines and dry products. Red hat linux and debian appear to be the most popular distributions at the moment, at least in the u. This list is created by collecting extension information reported by users through the send report option of filetypesman utility. If there is a skip or seek option, those will also be in block size units. There are those based on scsi interfaces, those based on the floppy drive interface qic40, qic80, qic117, qic3010 and qic3020, and qic02 type drives. Every day thousands of users submit information to us about which programs they use to open specific types of files.
Linux and idescsi drives 8mm backup irwin backup digiboar. The distributions have grown to hundreds of mbs of linux software, and downloading that over even a 28. While we do not yet have a description of the qic file format and what it is normally used for, we do know which programs are known to open these files. Is there a driver or software that can drive an archive qic80. However if you are reading and writing a regular file, and there are no disk errors, then the block size doesnt really matter as long as you can scale those. We have picked some good number of best linux programs that will support popular linux distributions such as ubuntu, linux mint, open suse, fedora and more. Linux development view topic qic80 streamer and ftape. So i put it on a thumb drive and was surprised at how smooth and polished everything is. I have an old colorado 250mb tape drive, which connects to the pcs floppy controller, that id like to use to read a qic 80 cartridge. A crossplatform and open source web proxy cache application for linux and windows oses. An open source implementation of the domain name system dns protocols, a dns server and resolver. Colorado 250 250mb 350mb 120mb 80mb qic40 qic80 qic. I know that very old versions of the linux kernel used to have the ftape driver built into them which would theoretically let me read the raw data from the tape, but ive never actually used it, and im not sure how to get it to work properly.
Some of the commands include mkraid, raidstart, and raidstop. This is why we decided to make the most comprehensive list of linux monitoring tools on the internet. See the list of programs recommended by our users below. Tr2 cartridges were designed to have an 800 mb native capacity with a 0. This howto is to be intended as first step help and source of information. Qantel technologies qicware database management solution is a comprehensive suite of integrated development tools, application services, and relational database products for unix and windows operating systems. Qic80 qic 80 is a tape standard that can be used to determine which tapes or devices will work with a particular operating system or backup utility.