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MatBanik
Asked: 2011-04-10 09:47:40 +0800 CST

Old QIC80 tapes - Anyone know a tape drive that has drivers for 2003 or XP Windows?

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I have project where I have to try to load some old QIC80 tapes and see what's on them. I ordered some tape drives but they work only with Windows 95! Does anyone know about tape drive that reads QIC80 tapes and is recognized by Windows 2003 Server or even Windows XP?

I came across HPs T4000s tape drive but I'm not sure if it will read the QIC tapes. Can anybody confirm?

windows-server-2003 windows-xp drivers tapedrive

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  1. Best Answer

    You could try out some older Linux distributions. The last Linux kernel that included the 'ftape' module (QIC80 support) was 2.6.19.

    The ftape module

    ftape patch for more recent kernels

    Cheers

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