First post, by athlon-power
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I recently bought an external tape backup drive made by APS at a flea market for $20. It's an old SCSI drive, I'm going to assume that it uses 80-pin SCSI, because the cables that it uses are quite large and robust, in both the connectors and the gauge of the cables. I got lucky enough to also manage to get the cables needed for it when I bought it, and even an adapter so that it can work with my SCSI card that I already have- a PCI Adaptec one from 1994 (the guy selling it had a huge amount of vintage stuff- it was just all really dirty, and the functionality on most of it is dubious, though this one seems to work).
Everything for the hardware is working just fine- the drive powers on, does a little dance on the LEDs at the front, and goes into standby. The PC even detected it, but that's where the problems started- it has no drivers integrated. This is Windows 98 SE. I have tried searching online for it, and there is pretty much zero documentation for this thing, let alone drivers. The only information I can get from it is that it's the "Model # 2147-024P". I can't really give a clear indication of the age from it, but gauging from the use of 80-pin SCSI, it's probably fairly old, maybe from around 1993 or 1994.
Windows 98 SE saw the Adaptec card and installed the drivers for it, so that's ready to go. It's just the tape drive that's the issue- I can't really find anything about it online. I can't really use it right now, but I'd at least like to get the computer to recognize it. Later on, I'll buy some tapes for it, that is, if I can figure out exactly what kind of tape this takes. Here's some photos of the drive in question:
Where am I?
