Compatibility with the Floppy Drive
Because the tape drive attaches to either a SCSI or IDE cable instead of the ¯oppy ribbon cable and does not use DMA channel 2, there is no contention with the ¯oppy drive.
Installation Flexibility
The tape drives install in either a
Note: Because the
Reliability
The Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) is an impressive 200,000 hours. Reliability should be improved from previous tape drives because the ECC can recover up to 6 bad segments per block instead of the 3 bad segments per block.
Support
The following table shows the systems that support the
Description | Machine Type |
PC 300 | 6571*, 6573, 6581*, 6583, 6577, 6587, 6589 |
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PC 700 | 6875, 6877, 6885, 6887 |
Notes:
1.The systems marked with an asterisk (*) cannot support the SCSI tape drive because they have no PCI slot.
2.For the SCSI tape drives, a SCSI host adapter is required if one is not already in the system.
The operating system does not support the
vPC Servers 310
vPC Servers 315
vPC Servers 325
vPC Servers 330
There may be additional desktop systems that support the tape drive that were not available at the time of this publication. In order for the tape drive to be supported on a system unit, all of the following conditions must be met:
vThe tape drive is supported by the PC Company on a particular system. Contact the PC Company to determine if a particular system supports the
vThe system is supported by the operating system. To view a list of systems supported by the operating system, see the Internet web address: http://www.raleigh.ibm.com/rds/storesys/4690/contmatx.htm.
The IBM 4690 Store System software does not support the formatting of a tape cartridge. The tapes must be preformatted.
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