9-Track Tape Drive on RS6000
Fred L. Johnson
johnson at tanstaafl.austin.ibm.com
Wed Mar 6 10:16:29 AEST 1991
> 1. Is IBM's RS6000 SCSI, an Industry Standard SCSI?
Yes. To quote from the SCSI adapter spec, "This adapter conforms to the SCSI
ANSI standard X.131-1986. The adapter acts as an initiator with a conformance
level of 2 as defined in the standard. Fused terminal power is supplied
through a diobe by the adapter, and parity is implemented."
> 2. Can I buy a Cipher 9-track tape drive and hook it
> up, without any hardware additions?
I don't know.
> 3. Do we need a special driver written for this?
Probably. The SCSI tape device driver was written to specifically support the
3 IBM tape drives (unlike the disk drive that has an osdisk definition to
handle other SCSI disks).
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