Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Re: Dual ported TU78s Message-ID: <5188@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 19:49:04 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.5188 Posted: Sat Mar 2 19:49:04 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 04:55:10 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 13 From: bellcore!martin@BERKELEY This is the second 4.2 site that i have worked at with dual ported TU78's, they work fine. Dual porting is much cheaper than buying another TU78. We keep the switches on the A/B position and expect people to come into the machine room and load a tape before typing a tape write/read command (say cpio, tar, dd, dump etc). Even with the switch in either the A or B position the other machine gets an OFFLINE message, which is passed to the user. You can either educate your users or not, either way it works. Martin Levy, Bellcore.