9-Track Tape Drive on RS6000

[Fred L. Johnson]

> 	1. Is IBM's RS6000 SCSI, an Industry Standard SCSI?

Yes.  To quote from the SCSI adapter spec, "This adapter conforms to the SCSI
ANSI standard X.131-1986.  The adapter acts as an initiator with a conformance
level of 2 as defined in the standard.  Fused terminal power is supplied 
through a diobe by the adapter, and parity is implemented."
 
> 	2. Can I buy a Cipher 9-track tape drive and hook it
> 	   up, without any hardware additions?
 
I don't know.

> 	3. Do we need a special driver written for this?

Probably.  The SCSI tape device driver was written to specifically support the
3 IBM tape drives (unlike the disk drive that has an osdisk definition to 
handle other SCSI disks).

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