How would you loose slots being that the secongripped will be on the robot ? I'm clearly missing somethig.
-----Original Message----- From: Przemyslaw Maciuszko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 2:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3494 Library and dual gripper? On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:58:08PM +0100, Richard Foster wrote: > It may be worth pointing out that a dual gripper loses you some library > tape slots - 10% of them, in fact. The upper gripper cannot reach the > lowest 2 slot levels, nor can the lower gripper reach the highest 2 levels. > Therefore these 4 levels are lost (and are physically blanked off in our > library). Oh. That's the interesting point. We have to consider it (we soon will face the need to buy another frame to add more tapes) I have to reconsider buying another drives but those are horrible expensive (~45k$ list price) I thought maybe dual gripper will improve some things at least little bit, but currently I'm not so sure... -- Przemysław Maciuszko Agora SA
