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From: weigele@bosun1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Martin Weigele)
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Subject: tape cartridges, was: floppy drives / old cubes
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Date: 6 Feb 91 17:31:12 GMT
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osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) writes:

>Just for the general awareness, I finally got an answer for my question:
>"Do third party external drives function the same as the new internal drives
> from an OS/user point-of-view."

>I called a couple of manufacturers, didn't get my calls returned (I didn't
>try too hard, actually) and ended up calling NeXT.  The answer is "yes."
>These 3rd party drives and the NeXT internal drive are both SCSI devices.

Does anyone know whether this means that one could also use
third party SCSI tape cartridges (like the SUN ones) with the
existing system software ?

Martin Weigele
FB Informatik, Universitaet Hamburg, Germany