Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 08:23:55 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hardware Users), questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Any experience with the Archive 4586 and 4584 DDS changers? Message-ID: <199612151623.IAA00340@papillon.lemis.de>
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I'm currently in Cupertino, and yesterday I visited the Disk Drive Depot at 500 Lawrence in Sunnyvale (where I met a salesman who seemed to know what he was selling :-). They have some Archive DDS tape changers there. Briefly: Archive 4584 NPR, DDS-1 with compression, 4 tapes, 16 GB total, $449 Archive 4586 NP, DDS-2 with compression, 4 tapes, 32 GB total, $695 Both of these units were discontinued before the Conner/Seagate takeover, and were built in 1995, but they're unused. They take up a full-height 5 1/4" slot. A 12 tape cartridge is also available for $99. My questions: Has anybody used these devices? War stories? Does anybody know how to address these tapes? I'm would expect that they are addressed by LUNs, but that doesn't explain how the 12 tape cartridge works. The salesman offered me a 15 day return, but that doesn't help me much, since I need to take the thing back to Germany to test it. I suppose if somebody round here were interested, and could let me try it out in his machine, that could be an interesting solution for both of us. Greg
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