mass storage tape drive for the SGI 4D/GT series

[Mark Bradley]

In article <May.23.11.24.10.1989.6565 at porthos.rutgers.edu>, kish at porthos.rutgers.edu (Bill Kish) writes:
> 
> 	Has anyone looked into hooking up an EXABYTE tape drive (or the
> equivalent) to the SGI 4D/GT series ?  I have information from a company
> called Sterling, but they wanted upwards of $8000 (this figure was *after*
> deducting the educational discount) !).  I was hoping to not spend more
> than $4000 if at all possible.  If I get enough responses, I will post
> a summary to the net.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill Kish
> 
> email: kish at rutgers.edu

SGI sells this tape drive as an option.  Works great!  We support byte
swapped and non-byte swapped, fixed and variable records and everything.
Multivolume works today.  Buy it from us and have hardware and software
support and installation.

					markb

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