Re: System for Duplicating Tapes

[nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>   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.

i don't think it matters...  at least it hasn't, unless there is something 
special about
4.2.  but we dup stuff we can't read all the time!

if you like, i can test that out.  i could create a tape on the 170, and then 
dup it on
the d20 if you like.  let me know!

nj


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