Travan Backup tape!

[Jacques]

I have one USB Travan type 4 (4 gig / 8 gig compressed) backup drive (made by Aiwa) that I'd love to use in my Mac OS X setup for backup purposes.

I have not been able to find a way as of yet, can anyone help? Any and all help appreciated!

Jacques

[mervTormel]

what happens if you plug it in? can apple system profiler see it?

[Jacques]

The Finder does not recognize the drive (whether tape is in or not) but the Apple Profiler does.

What do you suppose is my next step?

BTW - the model of the drive is AIWA TD-U8000, TRAVAN 8GB - USB.

Thanks for any and all input!

Jacques

[markham56]

I have the same tape drive I used under OS-9. It's a shame it doesn't work under OS X. Has anyone found a solution.

Better yet, anyone want to buy it? ;)

[Jacques]

Wow kid, that was NINE years ago!!!!

= )

It's gone, long gone. I even had a huge tape array drive that was about $2k for server use, that had a similar story. I offered these TRAVAN drives for nearly nothing, no one wanted. They both went on the curb and found their way to Wall-E on some forsakken garbage heap somewhere out there.

Amazing how tech moves huh? I remember loading programs via cassette on old computers, taking about 15-20 minutes. Then when 5 1/4 floppies came out, WOW they were magical.

Now SSD drives look old in light of how some high-end tech folks out there (mostly gov't work), now look towards crystal storage for speed and size. Reminds me of Superman and his crystals in the snow-land of his northern layer.

hey, since when did Mac OS X Hints become part of MacWorld anyhow? I haven't been to these forums in some time

Jacques

[macsolver]

Hi,

To use tape, you need software to control the tape drive, Windows or Mac.

Mac software - try the current version of Retrospect - FREE !

http://www.retrospect.com/

If it works, you can then buy it. The 3 user pack is affordable for the home/small office user.

Regards,

Nick

[acme.mail.order]

I have the same tape drive I used under OS-9. It's a shame it doesn't work under OS X. Has anyone found a solution

Very simple solution: Go to the local supplier with $100 and get a USB stick that is both larger and faster than a 10 year old tape drive. I've got more memory in my camera today than the OPs tape drive could handle.

[NovaScotian]

I second AMO's suggestion. "Seems a shame to throw away a ... that still works" is an affliction of mine too; one that I try hard to resist with Acme's point of view -- it's dead technology. (Disclosure: I have an operating Mac SE/30 with an operating Internet card in it that I nurse back to health occasionally -- but that's history; I don't use it for anything.)

[Jacques]

Amazing. One day the iPhone 5 will be 'dead tech' good for nothing at all. . . and we don't even know what it's like yet!

Just bizarre to think about..

= )

Jacques

[acme.mail.order]

I have an operating Mac SE/30 with an operating Internet card in it that I nurse back to health occasionally

Ooohhhhhh......... Retro Tech that works.

If it's old enough that's different. The 4Gb tape drive is in the Purgatory Zone - old enough to be obsolete, not old enough to be cool.

Now, if we were talking about an IBM System/370 tape drive...