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richc@phantom.pac.sc.ti.com (Richard Campbell) writes:

>In article <4526i6$b76@newsreader.wustl.edu>, jmelson@artsci.wustl.edu (Jonathan M. Elson) writes:
>|> Steven Bridge (ccaasub@ucl.ac.uk) wrote:
>|> : We are using a Lago datawheel with two exabyte drives.
>|> : After a drive failure, one of these has been replaced with
>|> : a drive supplied by Lago Systems described on the box as
>|> : a 'DRIVE ASM,8500C'.
>|> : I believe this performs hardware compression.
>|> 
>|> Nope!  it is the 8505 that has the extra compression processor added.
>|> The 8500 just has an empty slot where the compression board would go.
>|> You need to make them get you an 8505.  The 8500 will get massive
>|> errors and garble when it tries to read a tape written on an 8505
>|> when the compression was turned on.

> However it's a full height device and I believe that the 8505
>is a half height device.

that is correct.

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