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From: Steve Walsh <stevewa@bri.hp.com>
Subject: Re: Which HP external DAT unit should I buy ? Pl. help !
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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 12:15:59 GMT
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Raymond N Shwake wrote:
>
> Steve Walsh <stevewa@bri.hp.com> writes:
>
> >Either model would be suitable, the only difference is that the UNIX
> >version
> >has the power supply external to permit access to the drive config
> >switches.
> >In PC based UNIX systems, this is unnecessary. I'll forward your message
> >to
> >our WEB site editor, maybe it needs more clarity.
>
> What does "access to switches" have to do with the power supply? I've got
> external units from Media Integration based on the 1533 and 1599 drives
> with little cables from the SCSI ID pins to an external ID selector. Since
> we run mostly Intel-based UNIX (Novell/SCO UnixWare, AT&T/NCR Unix, soon
> Solaris) the default switches are fine, but a small "window" to those
> switches could be easily engineered.
>
> Power supplies belong internally, not in sloppy bricks cluttering up desks
> and floors. Hey, if you guys can engineer a Mopier that can "mow the lawn"...
The switches we were discussing are a 8 way dip switch on the underneath
of
every drive "brick", not the SCSI ID switches. The PSU would need a
major
re-design to allow these switches to be accessible. I take your point on
external "fat snake" PSU's... I missed the Mopier statement, maybe
that's
US only advert!
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