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From: billy@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Tape Drive tricks on VMS & Ultrix
Message-ID: <12329.25472184@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 89 15:23:48 GMT
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Hi,

I am planning some upgrades and wonder if the following will work:

    VAX 6310  DECsystem 5810
       |        /             
    HSC 50     /
       \      /
        \    /
         \  /
         TA78 tape drive

The TA78 is dual ported.   Will this configuration work?  Does Ultrix
crash if the tape drive is port switched to VMS on the 6310?  We have 
Mt. Xinu More/BSD 4.3 on one system and that system will crash if the 
tape drive is disconnected.

Thanks,

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