| Title: | Ask the Storage Architecture Group |
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| Created: | Wed Oct 15 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Can someone help me out with this?
A TZ88 was purchased to be used with an AlphaServer 4100 that's
running Windows NT 4.0. The system is at a customer site where they have
been using the DLTtape III cartridges for their OpenVMS VAXcluster.
The TZ88 arrived with a CompacTape IV DLT cartridge.
Could the customer use their DLTtape III cartridges for the
backups from the 4100? It was hard to tell from the documentation that
came with the TZ88. A paragraph made it sound like you could use it
but a table showed not supported.
Appreciating any responses.
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| 6735.1 | Same capacity but better speed.. | SUBSYS::TRAN | Straight <Left> Hitter.. | Thu May 29 1997 16:43 | 6 |
Yes, C-III will works in TZ88 with the same format as in TZ87
(TZ85/86/87 format) with TZ88 speed (1.5MB/s native vs 1.25MB/s native
on TZ87).
T.
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| 6735.2 | How about the C-IIIXTs | FRAIS::KHAN | Wed Jun 04 1997 05:04 | 9 | |
Does the C-IIIXT also work with a TZ88 ? And if does it, which format
is used ?
Reason being, that a customer with lots of DLTs and a mixture of CIII,
CIIIXT and CIV tapes, was having problems using a TZ88. Bus resets are
also seen. After lots of SCSI troubleshooting, I installed a TZ87 and
since then we had no problems. Next step is to reinstall the TZ88 and
take C-IV tapes only.
/Azfar
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| 6735.3 | Sure does.. | SUBSYS::TRAN | Straight <Left> Hitter.. | Wed Jun 04 1997 12:03 | 5 |
Yes. It writes/reads XT format with XT media but you will get TZ88
performance (1.5-3MB/s) instead of XT's (1.25-2.5MB/s).
T.
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