Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Saturday 06 May 2006 10:27 pm, Don Y wrote:
I have a 20GB (40GB compressed) Exabyte here. Not
sure how
true the "video tape" option is for higher densities... :-(
I believe
that the guy mentioned "20GB" in our conversations. What sort
of tapes would that things use?
If it is an Exabyte, they are most likely 8mm (as
Chuck> said).
Roughly 1/2" thick (cartridge) by 2" x 3". My tapes claim
"exabyte recognition systems" which I assume is just something
that tells the drive what (ahem) capacity the tape is.
Note other types of drives also support 20G (and MUCH higher)
densities (DLT, SDLT, etc.) but I assume (from your comments)
that these are all exabytes.
These two that I have immediately to hand, yeah. They appear to have the
standar 4-pin power connector and a 50-pin SCSI connector that's tied by way
of some very short cables to a hot-plug (?) setup via a little board on the
back, it appears to be an 80-pin connector. That stuff is mounted to a rail
of sorts that goes around the back and most of both sides.
The board is probably an SCA adapter. This, by itself, doesn't
make the assembly "hot swappable" -- though hard to say without
knowing what your adapter actually does...
Looks like those hard drives are supposed to be
hot-pluggable too, it's too
bad they aren't standard drives inside of those modules, those I could have
used, these things I can't see any way to use them unless I can figure out
some way to hook up to the rack as a whole.
Double check the drive connectors. Make sure they aren't
*80* pins like the adapter on the tape drive. If so,
they are all ScA drives and very commonly used.