SUMMARY: TKZ60 or TSZ07 tape drive

From: Jane Zuzek <Jane.Zuzek_at_oberlin.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:55:44 -0400

Thanks to responses from:
        Alan Rollow
        John Speakman
        Jim Fitzmaurice
        Bruce J. Senn
        Randy Rodgers

Replies noted that these drives are being used successfully
(single-ended 8-bit SCSI card KZPAA-AA) from various Alpha servers, and
advised using 'dd' with the 'conv=ebcdic' and the 'bs' (block size)
options.

Thanks for the responses.

        Jane Zuzek

Original question:
>
> For tax purposes (state and federal government), we will need to acquire
> either a TKZ60 (IBM 3480 compatible) or TSZ07 (9-track) tape drive to
> connect to our AlphaServer 4000 running Digital Unix 4.0D.
>
> Can anyone offer comments (sucesses/problems) on connecting either of
> these drives to a 4000?
>
> And if anyone has used one of these drives to make tapes of records for
> tax purposes (W2s), how did you copy the data? I'm sure the people on
> the other end can't deal with tar format, for example.


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Jane Kramer Zuzek
Computer Systems Manager, Oberlin College
Jane.Zuzek_at_oberlin.edu
440-775-6929
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Received on Mon Jun 14 1999 - 18:58:59 NZST

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