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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: QIC-nn tape formats -- standardization???
Message-ID: <1990Dec30.204604.14970@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 30 Dec 90 20:46:04 GMT
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pdg@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Guthrie) writes:

>In article <2778D4B0.39B9@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>>a) Does there exist anywhere, a 125MB or 150MB QIC tape drive (controller,
>>   and associated UNIX driver) that can *WRITE* 60MB tapes as weel as
>>   read them?
>Not that I have seen.  To solve this problem, we added an Archive
>2150ES (can write 125 and 150s, and read 60, 125 and 150s), to our
>existing Adaptec SCSI setup, and a Wangtek 60 megger (for ~$250) just
>for writing 60 and 45 Meg tapes for our software products.  The only
>nasty thing about this is that the Wangtek has its own controller,
>eating up a valuable slot.

I wonder if Interactive Unix would support multiple SCSI tape drives -
say a 2150S along with a 60 meg streamer - on one system using the
same 1542b controller?

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