Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!sgi!markb@denali.sgi.com From: markb@denali.sgi.com (Mark Bradley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: mass storage tape drive for the SGI 4D/GT series Summary: Exabyte on SGI Professional Series Message-ID: <33469@sgi.SGI.COM> Date: 23 May 89 22:27:24 GMT References: Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 26 In article , kish@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bill Kish) writes: > > Has anyone looked into hooking up an EXABYTE tape drive (or the > equivalent) to the SGI 4D/GT series ? I have information from a company > called Sterling, but they wanted upwards of $8000 (this figure was *after* > deducting the educational discount) !). I was hoping to not spend more > than $4000 if at all possible. If I get enough responses, I will post > a summary to the net. > > Thanks, > Bill Kish > > email: kish@rutgers.edu SGI sells this tape drive as an option. Works great! We support byte swapped and non-byte swapped, fixed and variable records and everything. Multivolume works today. Buy it from us and have hardware and software support and installation. markb -- Mark Bradley "Faster, faster, until the thrill of IO Subsystems speed overcomes the fear of death." Silicon Graphics Computer Systems Mountain View, CA ---Hunter S. Thompson