[Sunhelp] Internal dds3 tape unit

[Leon Halford - Open Systems Solutions Ltd]

Eddie,

There is no reason why this should not work. The Sun DDS3 tape drive is a 
standard SCSI tape drive with normal cable configuration. In actual fact it is a 
rebadged HP drive (Vendor ID = "HP      C1537A", "HP DDS-3 4mm DAT ").

Simply acquire the appropriate cable which converts the internal connector to a  
50 pin connector (a spare Sun unipack should have the correct connectors 
inside).

Install the SCSI adapter driver under Control_Panel->SCSI_Adapters within WinNT. 
Then configure the tape drive under Control_Panel->Tape_Devices. If necessary 
acquire the appropriate NT driver from the HP website.

This is obviously an unsupported configuration from Sun however!


Leon Halford.



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> Hi
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> Does anyone know if it is possible to configure a sun internal dds3 tape
> unit on a PC running Win NT with a 50-pin scsi card.
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> Thanks
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> Eddie Watkins
> Senior Systems Support
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