[rescue] Big tape drives

Jochen Kunz jkunz at maja.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de
Tue Oct 15 06:41:07 CDT 2002


On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:37:02PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:

> That TU78 was a *nice* drive...faster than all shit. 
> It pulls something like 70A at 220V though, 
That are 15400 W!? This is a _lot_ for a tape drive. In fact that is
enough to power a smal supercomputer. (AFAIK the entire CDC Cyper 910 
in Munich that is running every saturday needs about that.) 

> so I won't be running one of those at home. :-(
What are the requirements of your Crays?
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         Jochen

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