SweArchiveCorp

RP2350B reader for Archive Corp Sidewinder tape drives. Saves the tape as an image on an SD card.

Pictures are KiCad 3D renders of revision 1.00. A photo of a built board can replace them later.

SweArchiveCorp connects an RP2350B to an Archive Corp tape drive over the 8-bit Sidewinder parallel bus and writes the tape to an image file on a microSD card. Blocks are captured with PIO and DMA, then stored as a sequential image.

USB gives a command line for drive control and, when enabled, mass storage so a computer can read the card. Drive number, bus termination, and the output path come from config.json on the card.

The pictures here are board renders from KiCad (rev 1.00). KiCad sources and RP2350 firmware are in git.

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