Re: Share 3570 tape between 2 machines

Moving cables is problematical, in that you will likely bend pins sooner
than later.  Switch boxes are expensive, and a pain...  This drive
(although good) is no longer strategic, so look to upgrade to a model with
two internal drives in one housing in the used marketplace cheap.  I don't
have the numbers with me.

Al - in Denver at COMMON


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I have a 3570 I need to share between 2 machines.  The drive currently
works great on both boxes, but I have to remove the back cover and move
the cable from one system to another to do this.  I'd like to use an A/B
switch to easily do this.  The connection is SCSI cable.  A few
questions:

1.  Would there be any signal loss using an A/B switch.
2.  Can I use any SCSI cable, or do I have to use an "official" IBM
cable.
3.  Does anyone have an extra SCSI cable or SCSI switch box they are
interested in selling?

TIA.
cjg

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