I was sent these by a site member Question is what are these? I think dlt tapes 1/4 inch. Does anyone have a drive I can borrow? Is anyone very familiar with tape media?
Here you go. http://www.athana.com/html/dcdrvcmp.html Since Imation is a general-use brand. See if you can use any of these drives listed. They might be able to read it.
That's a quarter inch format - Tandberg SLR or QIC. http://www.avax.com/slr_tape_drives.html http://www.tape.com/products/qic-1-4-data-cartridge.html Several manufacturers made these tapes with a 300XL code. You should find this is a 45mb tape.
Get a drive and have a look. Check out the type of tape by googling the product number. Once you know the capacity and the tape type you can get a drive (usually they are cheap and SCSI only). Then comes the hard part. Linux or windows? Usually modern windows software can access old linux backups also, but not all of them. The only way is discovery. So get the drive first.
Whoever want to figure out this puzzle ( I have no interest ) can have the tapes. However, some sort of pledge is needed as I am not handing them over just to have them vanish. There was a certain amount of trust with these.
I'll have a look in storage at the weekend and see if I can find anything for readingSLR/QIC formats.
I'm pretty sure they are QIC-11 tapes. I probably have a reader in storage, but I'm on the wrong side of the Atlantic for this. Edit: I had a look at the IBM docs, and any QIC drive from QIC-11 to QIC-525 should be able to read the tapes. Only QIC-11 and QIC-24 can write to them though. One problem is that is that according to the IBM FAQ QIC-11 was not standardised, so there might be incompatibilities between manefacturers. No mention of what the incompatibilities are. For DLT it was just a matter of whose cleaning tapes you could use, but it could be anything up to and including reading with the wrong reader will break them.
