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Re: DLT 320 on MPE
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John Lee <[log in to unmask]>
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John Lee <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:27:47 -0600
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IIRC, the only native driver on older MPE was for HP's DLT.  That was
a SE drive, 40GB capacity compressed.  There was no driver for a FWD DLT.

I could still provide the old SE version if you didn't find an
alternative.  I used to sell a million of them.

John Lee
Lee Management Co.
Minneapolis, MN


At 07:22 PM 01/11/2012, Stan Sieler wrote:
>Re:
> > Has anyone here ever used a DLT 320 on a 3000?  It's a couple of
> revs past the DLT8000 and I'd hoped the DLT8000 driver would work,
> but, while it will AVR a tape, it says not ready when you actually
> try to access the drive.
>
>Sounds like my experience when I tried to get an 8mm drive to work on a 3000
>a few months ago.  (I never succeeded getting past AVR either, not even
>by using low-level sendio calls.)
>
>I did get a DAT72 drive to work, IIRC.
>
>Stan
>
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