Drive inventory

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Feb 14 02:27:34 2002

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Tothwolf wrote:

> If you connect more than one tape drive to the floppy interface, they will
> conflict with each other. Even if you disconnect their power connector,
> but leave the data cable connected, you will have "weird" problems.

Why?

Hmm, after thinking about this a little bit I can see that there might be
a conflict. But I would still like a technical answer to my "why"
question :)

> Yup, it is. Your best bet might be to pick up nearly every tape drive you
> find that isn't identical to one you already have...unless you want spares
> anyway.

That's what I'm doing. I guess I'll need to have a cabinet just for
storing drives.

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