A series of 4 mm DAT or floppy tape drives can be chained together and selected for the same process. The chain may include only devices of the same type (i.e., all 4mm DAT drives) which allows continuous multireel tape operations using all the selected drives in sequence.
Once the first tape drive in the series has reached the end of tape, the process begins writing to the second selected tape drive while the first tape rewinds. The operator is instructed to mount a new tape only when the end of tape has been reached on the last tape drive in the series.
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