TK70 for uVAX 3100/20?

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#3967

Author: "Les LaZar [Zolt
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 00:00

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Is there a way to add a TK70 (or equivalent) tape drive to a uVAX 3100/20?
We want to be able to read existing TK50 and TK70 tapes.

The 3100 has an existing SCSI port and at least two half-high SCSI drive
bays that are unused.  It may or may not have empty Q-Bus slots (I haven't
had a chance to examine the machine in detail).

The OS is VMS V5.4-3 (soon to be upgraded to V5.5-2).

TIA for any suggestions.

Les LaZar

llazar at zoltech dot com

Re: TK70 for uVAX 3100/20?

#3975

Author: Terry Kennedy
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 00:00

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Les LaZar [Zoltech Corp] <Les_LaZar@csi.com> writes:
> Is there a way to add a TK70 (or equivalent) tape drive to a uVAX 3100/20?
> We want to be able to read existing TK50 and TK70 tapes.

  The TZ30 is a 1/2-height SCSI TK50-compatible drive. It doesn't read or
write TK70's, though.

> The 3100 has an existing SCSI port and at least two half-high SCSI drive
> bays that are unused.  It may or may not have empty Q-Bus slots (I haven't
> had a chance to examine the machine in detail).

  I'm not sure what a 3100/20 is (from your description it has Q-bus slots,
but I thought all 3100's were busless). If it does indeed have an open Q-bus
slot, you can get a TK70 and a TQK70 controller. This will read and write
TK70's and read TK50's.

	Terry Kennedy		  Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	  St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
        +1 201 915 9381 (voice)   +1 201 435-3662 (FAX)

Re: TK70 for uVAX 3100/20?

#3978

Author: "Les LaZar [Zolt
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 00:00

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The TZ30 was considered, but the capacity of a TK50 is too small...TK70
capacity (min) is required.

Thanks for the thought though.

Les

Terry Kennedy wrote in message ...
>Les LaZar [Zoltech Corp] <Les_LaZar@csi.com> writes:
>> Is there a way to add a TK70 (or equivalent) tape drive to a uVAX
3100/20?
>> We want to be able to read existing TK50 and TK70 tapes.
>
>  The TZ30 is a 1/2-height SCSI TK50-compatible drive. It doesn't read or
>write TK70's, though.
>
>> The 3100 has an existing SCSI port and at least two half-high SCSI drive
>> bays that are unused.  It may or may not have empty Q-Bus slots (I
haven't
>> had a chance to examine the machine in detail).
>
>  I'm not sure what a 3100/20 is (from your description it has Q-bus slots,
>but I thought all 3100's were busless). If it does indeed have an open
Q-bus
>slot, you can get a TK70 and a TQK70 controller. This will read and write
>TK70's and read TK50's.
>
> Terry Kennedy   Operations Manager, Academic Computing
> terry@spcvxa.spc.edu   St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
>        +1 201 915 9381 (voice)   +1 201 435-3662 (FAX)

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