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From: szamos@saul1.u.washington.edu (Janos Szamosfalvi)
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Subject: Re: SyQuest SQ3270S for Data Exchange?
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Date: 6 Nov 1994 05:55:37 GMT
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Thomas Wolfram (wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de) wrote:

: Hi,
: I would like to use my SyQuest SQ3270S, i.e. the cartridges,
: for exchanging data. Sounds natural but what happens if
: different SCSI controllers in the different computers are
: using different heads/sectors translation schemes (e.g.
: Adaptec controllers make every SCSI disk to appear to have
: 64 heads and 32 sectors, but not all SCSI controllers
: do the same) and this information is stored in any way in
: the respective partition when it's formatted?

I've used the my SyQuest with 3 different HA`s (ST01, TMC-850 MER,
TMC-1680)  and it worked fine when I had the driver installed.