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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Cartridge tape drives (new/old)
Message-ID: <3350@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 24 May 89 01:58:05 GMT
References: <539@pan.UUCP>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <539@pan.UUCP> jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) writes:
>IBM recently replaced the cartridge tape drive (old 6157-001, new 6157-002).
>The old drive had a capacity of 60Mb, the new is 150Mb.  So far so good.
>However, consider the following:
>
>- It is not possible to put more than one cartridge tape drive in an RT.
>  This means that the simple solution, keeping a system with one drive
>  of each type installed, is not possible.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think the controller has changed,
only the external drive unit.  Why not keep both next to the RT and plug
one or the other in as needed?

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Steve Dyer
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