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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: tape drives for an indigo
- Message-ID: <skdppj8@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 03:07:30 GMT
- References: <2B0D5B26.12597@news.service.uci.edu>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <2B0D5B26.12597@news.service.uci.edu> rcaslis@hydra.acs.uci.edu (Russell Caslis) writes:
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- | We have been thinking about getting a tape drive for our indigo, since we
- | seem to be unable to read SGI tapes on any drives hooked up to other vendor's
- | machines.
- |
- | I have two questions:
- |
- | 1) Will a tape drive bought for an indigo work on other systems? (i.e. suns,
- | DEC risc, HP 700s, etc.)
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- Maybe. It depends on what type of tape drive you buy. For something
- like an Archive 2150S QIC-150 drive, the answer is "almost certainly".
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- For other types of drives, the answer isn't as clear.
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- | 2) What would be the best drive to get, and from which company?
-
- Depends on what you want it for, and what your requires are.
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- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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