Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 11:25:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Craig Shaver" <craig@ProGroup.COM> To: grog@freebsd.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any experience with the Archive 4586 and 4584 DDS changers? Message-ID: <199612151925.LAA09956@seabass.progroup.com> In-Reply-To: <199612151623.IAA00340@papillon.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Dec 15, 96 08:23:55 am
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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. I saw these in an ad from CSC. If I had not purchased a HP1533 dat I might have gone for one. > > 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. Do you think the driver will have to be reconfigured? > > 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 > > Do you have any docs on it? I am in Sunnyvale, and have both 2.1.0R and 2.1.5R running right now. Are you going to get the external unit? I am doing some work now, but can spare a little time to help you out. Call the number in the signature. Craig -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088
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