Re: System for Duplicating Tapes

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@xxxxxxx>]

David,

  Others have mentioned a used D/E10 or so and for hardware this is
probably a reasonable size.  I would caution that you MAY need a RISC
box if you need to dup tapes that are above V3R2. Can someone verify
that you need V4R2 for example to dup a V4R2 tape?  (I believe this IS
true.)

  IF it is true then you will probably want to search out a model 400
which will easily handle your tape requirements as well as run V4R3
however it will be more expensive.

  Larry Bolhuis
  Arbor Solutions, Inc
  lbolhui@ibm.net

David Gibbs wrote:
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> I'm looking for some opinions ... what would be the minimum system
> configuration (cpu, memory, & dasd) for an AS/400 system that's sole
> purpose in life is to duplicate tapes.
> 
> We need to handle 3 or 4 different tape medias ... possibly multiples
> of each (so we can cut more than one tape at a time).  Basic media
> coverage would be 8mm, QIC, and 3490.
> 
> TIA!
> 
> david
> 
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> David Gibbs
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> Mortice Kern Systems Development, Inc
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