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Subject: Re: Any experience with the Archive 4586 and 4584 DDS changers?
To: grog@freebsd.org
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 11:25:19 -0800 (PST)
From: "Craig Shaver" <craig@ProGroup.COM>
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In-Reply-To: <199612151623.IAA00340@papillon.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Dec 15, 96 08:23:55 am
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> 
> I'm currently in Cupertino, and yesterday I visited the Disk Drive
> Depot at 500 Lawrence in Sunnyvale (where I met a salesman who seemed
> to know what he was selling :-).  They have some Archive DDS tape
> changers there.  Briefly:
> 
>   Archive 4584 NPR, DDS-1 with compression, 4 tapes, 16 GB total, $449
>   Archive 4586 NP, DDS-2 with compression, 4 tapes, 32 GB total, $695
> 
> Both of these units were discontinued before the Conner/Seagate
> takeover, and were built in 1995, but they're unused. They take up a
> full-height 5 1/4" slot.  A 12 tape cartridge is also available for
> $99.

I saw these in an ad from CSC.  If I had not purchased a HP1533 dat I
might have gone for one.

> 
> My questions:
> 
>   Has anybody used these devices?  
>   War stories?
>   Does anybody know how to address these tapes?  I'm would expect that
>   they are addressed by LUNs, but that doesn't explain how the 12 tape
>   cartridge works.

Do you think the driver will have to be reconfigured?

> 
> The salesman offered me a 15 day return, but that doesn't help me
> much, since I need to take the thing back to Germany to test it.  I
> suppose if somebody round here were interested, and could let me try
> it out in his machine, that could be an interesting solution for both
> of us.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 

Do you have any docs on it?  I am in Sunnyvale, and have both 2.1.0R
and 2.1.5R running right now.  Are you going to get the external unit?
I am doing some work now, but can spare a little time to help you out.
Call the number in the signature.

Craig


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