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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 60 MB Tapes (was Re: AT&T 630 "dmd"... )
Message-ID: <9129@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 1 Aug 89 16:06:52 GMT
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In article <9711@alice.UUCP> debra@alice.UUCP () writes:
[3b2 vs 386 tapes]
>Oops, our 3B2 is a 3B2/400 indeed, so it has the older 23MB tape drives.
>Nice to hear that newer 3B's have compatible drives. (This doesn't help
>us though since we have to live with an old 3B.)

The answer is to install network cards and link the machines via RFS.
Then you can use either tape drive to access either disk.  The only
problem then is that you need enough empty disk space to copy in
125M of data to fill the 386 tapes.

Les Mikesell