Re: IBM 7208-342 tape drive on a PC? -- MIDRANGE-L

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David,

An alternative would be to use an LVD <-> HVD converter. I used to work with 
one and seem to remember it wasn't very expensive (at least that was our 
accountant told me :-) ).

The one we had was from Paralan (www.paralan.com)

regards,

Luis Rodriguez
(PS. Sorry about the late post)




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message: 8
date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:09:26 -0500
from: David Gibbs 
subject: Re: IBM 7208-342 tape drive on a PC?

Larry Bolhuis wrote:

 It will work so long as you find yourself an HVD SCSI card.  99% of the
SCSI cards you'll have laying around for PCs are all LVD. Any card that
supports both disk units and tape units is going to be LVD. Those cards
are out there but fairly rare and not cheap. If you plug it into an LVD
card you may damage the card.


Oh!  Thank you for that.

Guess my plan is going to fail.

Oh well.

See my next message :)

david




Luis Rodriguez

IBM Certified Systems Expert
eServer i5 iSeries Technical Solutions
                
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