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Suzan,> 2) I have not yet purchased a 9 track standard reel to reel
> tape drive for our Sun 386i and I was wondering if you or anyone
> at NOAO has a recommendation as to which one to buy. If so, I would
> greatly appreciate any information you might have, especially
> regarding necessary peripherals. (In the meanwhile,
> I will be on an ethernet link to other SUN's on the Smith Campus, so
> that I can at least get IRAF on the system). I don't know anyone having direct experience with 9track tape drives
for the AT bus on a 386i. John Oliver at U. Florida recently said he had
talked to someone in Detroit who had gotten a Cipher drive working on a
386i. I would be careful; often the software for driving vendor-unsupported
tape drives is buggy or nonexistent. So far most people with 386i's have
them on ethernet; it is possible to install a minimal IRAF kernel server
system on the other Sun, and access the drive remotely without having to
login directly from the 386i: cl> rfits remotenode!mta 1 im1Send mail to iraf@noao.edu after you get IRAF installed, if you want to
pursue this option.Steve Rooke
rooke@noao.edu