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From: hue@island.COM (Pond Scum)
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Subject: Re: Looking for real 1/2" mag tape driver
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Date: 3 May 91 18:00:06 GMT
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In article <360@optigfx.optigfx.com> hamid@optigfx.optigfx.com (Hamid Taghavi) writes:
>drive.  We are transitioning our products to SPARCStations which do not
>have a VME bus.  We need to support 1/2" tape drives on these machines.
>The Obvious answer is to use a 1/2" tape drive with a SCSI interface...
>But it turns out that not all the features and functions that are available
>on the Pertec interface are are available over SCSI...
>for example, from "man st":

Try 4.1.1.  There is no mention of being unable to deal with variable sized
records in the man page of st, so maybe the restriction is gone.  We had
an HP-88780 1/2" SCSI tape drive hooked up to a SPARCstation 2 and it worked
fine, but our application always knew what size records it was reading.


-Jonathan		hue@island.COM