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From: glz5913@ritcv.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: using an IBM 6157 tape streamer with MS-DOS ??
Message-ID: <429@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 88 17:38:59 GMT
References: <420@turing.cwi.nl> <2591@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: glz5913@ritcv.UUCP (Gary L. Zeiger)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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Keywords: tapestreamer

In article <2591@umd5.umd.edu> jonnyg@umd5 (Jon Greenblatt) writes:
>In article <420@turing.cwi.nl> johan@cwi.nl (Johan Wolleswinkel) writes:
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>>We've got some IBM 6157 Streaming Tape Drives, which are intended
>>for use with an RT; they use 37-pins connectors; the tape cassette
>>to be used can be a 45 Mbyte DC 300 XL/P from 3M.
>>We would like to couple some of these devices with MS-DOS machines.
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>	There is a product called Sytos which uses the RT streaming tape
>on the AT and PS/2, It's by the Sytron Corporation. V2.0 works with PS/2's,
>V1.X didn't. It looks like an IBM supported product from looking at the
>liscence agreement. On a PS/2 I backed up a 30meg disk in 6 minutes!
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>						Jon Greenblatt.

We used the 6157 and Sytos for nightly backups of all 3 servers (2-P/S 2 
Model 60's and 1 AT) on a token ring network.  Works like a charm.

						-Gary L. Zeiger