Subject: RE: 3100 hardware questions
To: 'rickgc@calweb.com' <rickgc@calweb.com>
From: Gunnar Helliesen <gunnar@bitcon.no>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/09/1997 14:17:48
The TZ30 is "TK50 compatible" and will indeed take TK50 tapes.

Typical disks in the 3100/38 were RZ23L (120MB), RZ24 (200MB), RZ24L
(209MB?) and RZ25 (425MB). The RZ25 was a Seagate ST1439N "in disguise".
All drives were 3.5" of course.

All according to my (fading) memory...

Gunnar

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>-----Original Message-----
>From:	rickgc@calweb.com [SMTP:rickgc@calweb.com]
>Sent:	Thursday, October 09, 1997 2:59 PM
>To:	port-vax@NetBSD.ORG
>Subject:	3100 hardware questions
>
>I recieved two Micro Vax 3100 M38's last night equiped with a tape drive
>called a TZ30.  What tape does this use, it looks like a TK50 will fit in
>it?  Also once again there were no hard disk drives in these machines and I
>would like to know what hard disk drive should have come with these machines
>when they were built?