Jim Phillips after Larry Simonsen,

> Larry Simonsen asks:
>
> >what is the tape drive that should be in this system?
> >it is a LX.  is the RX any different?
>
> Well, we have two 918 RX's, ordered new from an HP Channel Partner
> about 18 months ago, and they both have DDS-2 drives (HP #A3183A,
> but really they are C1539's).  Interestingly enough, when we had
> problems with one of the tape drives, the HP CE showed up with a
> DDS-1 drive on his first visit, so maybe the DDS-1 was the default
> drive for these units.

We have a 918DX here with DDS-2... we were given a choice of drives,
actually.  We have a 927RX with DDS-1.  Methinks that the "default" is DDS-2
or DDS-3, but you should be able to specify.

We cut all of our tapes for distribution on the DDS-1 drive so that they are
compatible.  We've had a mountain of problems with people trying to read
tapes from the DDS-2 drive, so we just use that one internally.

Best Regards,
Joe

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