9-track tape drive for NeXT

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1 total messages Started by Zenon Fortuna Mon, 05 Oct 1992 20:29

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Author: Zenon Fortuna
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 20:29

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Some time ago I have posted a question how would it be possible to use
a 9-track tape drive in a NeXT system. There were a few short answers, but
no specific suggestion which (low cost) drive to use.
On another hand there are a few tape-drive producers, advertising in PC
journals, with prices set lower than for products in the workstations/
mainframes world.

Being in need I have asked the Overland Data, Inc. for a unit to evaluate.
I have received the TL5612/SCSI drive for almost a week, and have run
different extensive tests on this drive.

In general this device works as good (with the same limitations) as the most
of the DAT systems, and is "almost" the "plug+play".

I have prepared a detaily description how I have run the tests. This is
about 4 pages of the text, so I will send it only by e-mail to those
interested.

		-Z.

PS. In a few days I will obtain a unit for evaluation from the Laguna Data
Systems. I expect it to work as well, but the price and performance are
different.

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