Guy's i have both 9840 & 3590 tape and i can tell you with absolute certinty
that you can not put 9840 tape into 3590 drives and read them it is physicaly
impossiable. but the hardware def for a 9840 is defined as a 3590.
Absolutely true.
The IBM 3590 carts use the same essential mechanism as their 3480 and
3490 ancestors. There is a single reel in the cart, with a leader
sticking out which the drive grabs and wraps around a takeup reel in the
drive.
The STK carts use 2 internal reels with no external leader, much like an
audio cartridge. There is no internal reel in the drive.
So the drives are software compatible, but the carts are totally
incompatible and cannot be mounted in the other vendors drives.
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Bruce A. Black
Senior Software Developer for FDR
Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300
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