neese@adaptx1.UUCP (01/04/91)
>/* ---------- "Re: QIC-nn tape formats -- standard" ---------- */ >pdg@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Guthrie) writes: > >>In article <2778D4B0.39B9@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes: >>>a) Does there exist anywhere, a 125MB or 150MB QIC tape drive (controller, >>> and associated UNIX driver) that can *WRITE* 60MB tapes as weel as >>> read them? >>Not that I have seen. To solve this problem, we added an Archive >>2150ES (can write 125 and 150s, and read 60, 125 and 150s), to our >>existing Adaptec SCSI setup, and a Wangtek 60 megger (for ~$250) just >>for writing 60 and 45 Meg tapes for our software products. The only >>nasty thing about this is that the Wangtek has its own controller, >>eating up a valuable slot. > >I wonder if Interactive Unix would support multiple SCSI tape drives - >say a 2150S along with a 60 meg streamer - on one system using the >same 1542b controller? Don't know about ISC, but SCO does support multiple tape drives on the SCSI bus. I have a WangDAT and a Cipher ST150S-90 on adaptex for the same reasons you guys have. Roy Neese Adaptec Senior SCSI Applications Engineer UUCP @ neese@adaptex uunet!cs.utexas.edu!utacfd! {nominil,merch,cpe}!adaptex!neese uunet!mlite!adaptex!neese