[rescue] Viper 150 reading QIC24?

[Phil Schilling]

Stephen Worotynec wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> A low cost set of QIC24 cartridge tapes with SunOS 4.1.1 came my way, in
> the original Sun box. I thought I would try and install this bit of
> history, and acquired a 411 case with what identifies as a Viper 150
> drive.
> 
> When I try to boot from the tape at the ok prompt, I get the error
> message:
> 
> The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
> 
> I'm not sure the drive have survived the years, and I'm further
> not sure this particular drive can read QIC24.
> 

I don't believe the viper 150 will read any lower than the qic60 iirc. 
I have a couple of 60mb archives somewhere on my shelves if you want to
give one of them a try?  I don't have any qic24 tapes to try in them.

Phil

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