[HECnet] Tape drive explosion

[Mark Benson]

On 25 Jan 2013, at 07:33, Dave McGuire wrote:

On 01/25/2013 02:27 AM, Ian McLaughlin wrote:
We're any of the other DEC drives released in a scsi version?

It's in the naming scheme.   TK = DEC interface, TF = DSSI, TZ = SCSI,
TU = massbus, TA = SDI, etc.   I've personally never seen a TZ85/86/87,
but if they exist, and conform to the naming scheme, they're SCSI.

Some of the later TZ8x drives can be found banded as other brands under a DLT model rather than a DEC model number. For example, I have a Compaq DLT4000 20/40 GB drive that's exactly the same hardware   as a TZ88 but the badge on the front is different. It works just fine with OpenVMS :) Alas the 88 is too late to read TK50 cartridges... I think.

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