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Sponsored by PCBWay: https://pcbway.com/g/ynWgss I stumbled upon a beat-up Silicon Graphics tape drive—at least, that’s what the label claimed. But as I dug deeper, I uncovered a tale of swapped components, squashed connectors, and a drive that might have been repurposed multiple times. Could this old DDS-1 tape streamer do more than just backups? What about playing or recording digital audio? And could I get it properly recognized by IRIX? Join me as I restore, repair, and reconfigure this mystery SGI peripheral. Have you ever used a DAT tape drive for audio or data storage on an SGI machine? Share your experiences in the comments! 📅 Next time on THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR: Getting the SGI O2 MooseCam to work—because nothing is ever that simple. 🔔 Subscribe for more retro hardware adventures! 00:00 Intro 00:35 Is it an SGI Drive, or not? 01:19 Disappointing Reveal: It's an HP35480A drive! 02:28 Cleaning, Cable Repair and Reassembly 04:54 Testing the HP35480A on SGI IRIX 05:20 Showcase: SGI IRIX's built-in Backup & Restore 06:29 Limitations with "foreign" Drives on IRIX 07:05 Adding IRIX Kernel Support for "foreign" Drives 08:34 Re-testing the HP35480A with Kernel Support 10:15 Conclusion / Next on TPC To support TPC, check out all my options on https://www.youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR/join This video was made possible with support by: THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS: Alisha Manuela Stutz @alishamanuelastutz Christian Zerrahn @JARVIS1187 David Shell @TheMinocula Waseem al sammane @wsammane THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS: HMK @hmichaelkraut7968 Jack Rosenthal @JackRosenthal1 Luke Granger-Brown @luke_gb Matthew Veety @MatthewVeety MS-DOS Manfred @msdosm4nfred Steven Glogger @sglogger Tim Hull @hulltim2 Wobinu Films @WobinuFilms xcalibur839 @xcalibur839 Z098 @Z098 Visit also THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR website at https://www.thephintagecollector.ch for insights into my retro computer collection. Copyright @ 2025 THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, Gianpaolo Del Matto. All rights reserved. Individual Copyrights apply for referenced material (see links). Theme Music composed by Abdallah El-Ghannam. https://www.fiverr.com/abdallahghannam Additional music featured by rootkitty https://soundcloud.com/rootkitty Links: HP DAT Audio Support https://community.hpe.com/t5/storeever-tape-storage/hp-35480a-audio-firmware/td-p/3276487 https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/DAT-Streamer-und-Recorder-298440.html https://www.4crawler.com/Hardware/Tape_Drives/DAT.shtml#UnknownDAT https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-2386.html https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.sgi.hardware/c/BrEsRJzySgE/m/ehDzdFwboNwJ https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/hp/tape/dat/DDS_VOL5_UNIX_Ed9_200301.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20011120070942/http://reality.sgi.com/save-reality.cgi DAT & DDS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Data_Storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Tape HP35480A: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/tape/dat/C1533A/A1658-90689_HP_DDS-2_Users_Guide_199602.pdf https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/hp/tape/dat/HP_External_DAT_Users_Guide.pdf https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/hp/tape/dat/HP_External_DAT_Users_Guide.pdf Sony DAT Drives: https://web.archive.org/web/20080317192139/http://sony.storagesupport.com:80/dds/sdt_9000.htm https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/sony/dat/SDT-9000_DDS-3/3-860-829-04-1_SDT-9000_Users_Guide_1997.pdf Comparative History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conner_Peripherals https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156434801420 https://www.techmonitor.ai/technology/conner_to_supply_drives_to_silicon_graphics?utm_content=EP/zh-CN/search/wordpress/page/6 https://ordi-spare.com/en/home/3141-sgi-064-0003-001-external-dds2-dat-drive-model-ctd8000e-s-4356xp.html http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/sgidepot/scsiitems.html http://mashek.com/SGIparts/O2.php