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- From: wk@cup.hp.com (Wayne Krone)
- Subject: Re: DAT drive on 835, help please
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:01:11 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.121536.8546@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
- Organization: HP-UX Kernel Lab, Cupertino
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- markd@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (Mark Damerell) writes:
- : We have: a H-P 9000/835, HP-UX 8.0, a SCSI card, and no adequate backup
- : device. We also have a SCSI DAT cartridge drive (H-P model C1520A) and I
- : wanted to attach it to the 835. Granted that the C1520A is not on the list
- : of officially-supported devices, but I dont see the point of having a SCSI
- : standard if conforming devices cannot communicate.
-
- The SCSI conformant hardware (peripheral and host) can communicate
- properly. The current s800 SCSI tape driver by design does not allow
- operation of any device not officially supported.
-