Phandalyon
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OK. I need some brainstorming here.
My boos has asked me to recover some data off of some 10 year old backup tapes.
I did a bit of research and discovered that the drive that the tapes originally went with is a Colorado Trakker 350 or Jumbo 350.
I went on eBay and found a Colorado Trakker 350 new in box for $20 so I bought it.
I have the drive and when I put a tape in everything spins.
Unfortunately the software is DOS based. XP is the oldest OS I currently have on premesis. OF course plugging the tape drive in to the XP machine does not work as the drive is not detected since I believe tape drives were driverless back in the day.
I don't even have a copy of DOS anymore. I threw my last one away not too long ago.
Any thought on how to recover the data from the tape?
Is my only real option to hunt down and build a DOS machine?
I get the software to run in XP but it does not recognise the drive. I believe that it is most likely an IRQ issue but since there is no driver for the drive I can't really play with IRQ.
The drive connects via a parallel port.
So anyone want to help me brainstorm this one?
My boos has asked me to recover some data off of some 10 year old backup tapes.
I did a bit of research and discovered that the drive that the tapes originally went with is a Colorado Trakker 350 or Jumbo 350.
I went on eBay and found a Colorado Trakker 350 new in box for $20 so I bought it.
I have the drive and when I put a tape in everything spins.
Unfortunately the software is DOS based. XP is the oldest OS I currently have on premesis. OF course plugging the tape drive in to the XP machine does not work as the drive is not detected since I believe tape drives were driverless back in the day.
I don't even have a copy of DOS anymore. I threw my last one away not too long ago.
Any thought on how to recover the data from the tape?
Is my only real option to hunt down and build a DOS machine?
I get the software to run in XP but it does not recognise the drive. I believe that it is most likely an IRQ issue but since there is no driver for the drive I can't really play with IRQ.
The drive connects via a parallel port.
So anyone want to help me brainstorm this one?