History (1997): Tape Array From Digital Interface

Digital Interface has launched a new tape array controller, the TA40.

The device is a dual channel tape controller that allows dual drive functionality for 4mm, 8mm, AIT and DLT units, with SCSl-3 host connections including Ultra Wide synchronous transfers.

In a 5.25- nch half-height form factor with a 2 lines by 24 character LCD front panel and a 4MB cache, the TA40 permits drives to function in stripe, mirror, cascade or off-line copy/verify modes. A 3- to-6-drive version is also available for RAID-0/1/3 levels.

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 118 on November 1997 from the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter.

Note: Tape array never was a market.