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From: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick)
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To: HaiderRo@linz.vai.co.at
Subject: Re:  Wangtec Tape-drive
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> I have an old Wangtec 6130 FS (the FS is important, there are other 6130

I think I unofficially "beta" tested an early version of this drive.
It had the charming property of making a request-sense command pause
while a rewind was in progress (~20 sec).  My notes suggest that it
exhibited truly creative brain damage in its treatment of the medium
partition mode page, though I forget what it was.  I recall that I
hated this device so much that I swore I would never buy a Wangtek
(this is how my note spells it) tape drive again.

Caveat: Have fun anyway.  Your mileage may vary.

Dan Strick
dan@math.berkeley.edu

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