Tape Formats
Our tape engineers have experience going back over a quarter of a century of experience in tape recovery, data conversion and media conversion. The DiskEng tape recovery and conversion services are therefore able to support a wide range of data and storage formats dating back 25 years and more. Below are tables showing examples of system types and formats we have seen or support.
Any Operating System
Windows 3.11
Windows 95/98/ME
Windows NT/XP/Vista
Windows Vista/7/8/10
Windows Server 2003/08/12/16
MacOS
Mac OS X
Mac OS X Server
MS-DOS
VMS
OS/2
Novell NetWare
OS/400
AIX
Any File System
Any Backup Software Format
Backup Exec
NT Backup
Windows Backup
Symantec Backup
ARCserve
ARCsolo
Legato Networker
Retrospect
Net Backup
Veritas
Palindrome
HP9000 FBackup
Unix Dump
VMS backup
TAR
CPIO
Tdump
Sbackup
AS400
Savlib
Eztape
Colorado
Mountain
Jumbo
Iomega Backup
QICstream
Cristie
Irwin
Any Tape Drive Manufacturer
Hewlett Packard
IBM
Sony
Seagate
Tandberg
Toshiba
TEAC
Iomega
Exabyte
Quantum
Colorado
OnStream
Irwin
Fujitsu
Conner
Any LTO, SDLT, DLT and TK Tape Cartridge
LTO1
LTO2
LTO3
LTO4
LTO5
LTO6
SDLT220
SDLT320
SDLT600
DLT8000
DLT4000
DLT80
DLT IV
DLT70
DLT IIIXT
DLT III
DLT II
DEC Tape
TK86
TK85
TK70
TK50
TK25
CompacTape I & II
Any 4mm and 8mm Tape
DAT 4mm 60m, 4mm 90m, 4mm 120m, 4mm 125m
Exabyte 8mm 160m,112m,170m
AIT, AIT-2, AIT-3, AIT-4, AIT-5
DDS, DDS2, DDS3, DDS4, DDS72, DAT-160, DAT-320
8200, 8205, 8500, 8505XL, 8508
SAIT-1, SAIT-2, Mammoth, Mammoth 2
Any Metal-backed Quarter Inch Cartridges
QIC24, QIC525, QIC150, QIC120
DC600A, DC6525, DC6150, DC6250, DC9120
SLR1, SLR2, SLR3, SLR4, SLR5, SLR6, SLR7
SLR24, SLR32, SLR50, SLR75, SLR100, SLR140
QIC Mini Cartridge (MC)
DC2000, DC2000XL, DC2080, DC2120
QIC-40, QIC-80, QIC-3010, QIC-3020, QIC-3090, QIC-3095
Travan: TR1, TR2, TR3, TR4, TR5, TR-7, NS-120
Ditto 3200, Ditto 2GB, Ditto Max, Ditto Max Professional
Any SyQuest, Iomega disks
SyQuest 5¼”: SQ400 44MB, SQ800 88MB, SQ2000 200MB
SyQuest 3½”: 135mb, 270mb, SySparc 1gig, 3½” SyJet 1.5GB
Iomega: Jaz Drive 1GB & 2GB, ZIP 100, 250 & 750
Iomega Bernoulli: 5¼” 90MB, 150MB
Any Optical Magneto (MO) and WORM cartridges
Maxoptix (a subsidiary of Maxtor), Sony and Fujitsu are the most well-known manufacturers of this type of drive. The most common form factors and the capacities were, 3.5” (128MB, 230MB, 640MB) and 5.25” (640MB, 650MB, 1.3GB, 2.5GB, 5GB, 9.1GB).
Any Mainframe Tape
The following are the most common types of mainframe tape data cartridge: 3480, 3490, 3490E, 3590, 3592, TS-11×0, 3570, Open Reel tape.
Any Magnetic Floppy Disk
The most commonly seen magnetic floppy disks are, 5.25” and 3½” formatted using Mac, PC and other operating systems and the LS120 drive.
