Obadiah <pilgrimworker@yahoo.com> writes:
>Hi. I just recently picked up an external Sun QIC tape drive. It's
>part number 595-1711-04. I believe it is shown at:
>http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub...pPk_150MB.html.

>Anyway, I can't seem to find any documentation about this drive on the
>Sun Micro site. Setup looks like standard SCSI, but how do you load a
>QIC tape in this thing? The entry port is huge compared to a standard
>QIC tape.


You've posted a picture of an Archive Viper QIC-150 drive in an
external Sun case. The QIC-150 or QIC-24 tapes slide in sideways in
through the front door, and then the lever slides to the right about
half to 3/4 of an inch or so. Seeing as the dimension of the
QIC-24/QIC-150 tape is 6" wide by 4" deep by 1/2" high or so, its not
that much bigger than a standard QIC-150 tape.

Maybe you are used to the QIC-80/Mini QIC form factor? Those are much
smaller tapes in size and capacity usually. They were more popular on
PC's, while these drives were used more in the enterprise &
workstation platforms in that day and age.


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Doug McIntyre merlyn@visi.com
Network Engineer/Jack of All Trades
Vector Internet Services, Inc.