22 Jan
2013
22 Jan
'13
4:53 a.m.
According to:-
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/IBM-ProdAnn/3430.pdf
only the "A" drive has power, the "B" is powered from the
"A" so it looks
very likely that you have an "A" unit.
On 22 January 2013 12:45, Dave Wade <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
I suspect it is an "A" drive as it has a
pair of BUS and TAG sockets and
normally on Mainframe channels only the "A" type devices have these, and
then the "B" drives use some other kind of cable to tie into the head of
string but this may not be true for 3430 drives.
However there should also be some jumpers to set the channel address and I
can't see those any where, so perhaps 3430 are daisy changed alog the
channel...
On 22 January 2013 11:12, Nigel Williams <nigel.d.williams at gmail.com>wrote:
A good friend has a well preserved IBM 3430 tape
drive, originally
connected to an IMPI AS/400, and we are now hopeful that it could be
reconnected to a slightly more modern AS/400, still IMPI and still
SPD. This would give us a local 9-track tape capability:
here are some pictures:
https://picasaweb.google.com/118247290269860741639/IBM3430TapeDrive#5606377…
What we are particularly interested to learn is whether we have the
"master" tape drive, known as a A01 unit (that includes the controller
electronics) or the tape-drive-only unit known as the B01 variant.
We added a picture today (see very last picture) of the main
controller electronics cage that shows several plug-in cards, is
anyone familiar with these and can identify the variant by sight? we
searched the entire machine looking for some designation that showed
the model variant without success. So we assume it comes down to the
controller cage, and we see empty slots so we wonder if it is the B01
variant.