IBM 9348 9-track tape drive

[Doc Shipley]

Eric Smith wrote:

> Sellam wrote:
> 
>>I set it up, powered it up, it came up to ready, so far so good.  I
>>inserted a tape and hit load and it worked like a champ.  So last night I
>>was attempting the next phase which was hooking it to a PC.  The Adaptec
>>controller didn't see it on the SCSI chain.
> 
> 
> You were using an Adaptec HVD (differential) SCSI controller, I hope?
> Standard single-ended and LVD (low voltage differential) controllers
> won't work with an HVD drive like the 9348, unless you use one of the
> fairly rare SE/HVD adapters.

   OK, I'd like to ask, where did you get your info?

   All the reseller sites list the 9348-012 as SE, and the one piece of 
IBM documentation I've found lists some other drives as differential, 
but shows the 9348-012 as simply SCSI.

   Ahh, here, in comp.unix.aix, the recommended SCSI adapter for the 
9348 on PCI RS/6000 is FC 6208.  That's a single-end adapter.


	Doc