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:sal AT AGORA DOT PL]
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 2:37 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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...


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Przemysław Maciuszko
Agora SA