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- From: mah@parrot.prv.univie.ac.at (Michael Haberler)
- Subject: Re: DAT drive on 835, help please
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.221517.17529@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>
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- References: <1992Jul22.121536.8546@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:15:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.121536.8546@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk>, 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.
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- In our case the `conforming host' will be a Sun to which we hook up the
- HP DAT tape to back up a HP 845. The latter of course has a SCSI I/F.
-
- I wonder when HP will finally get its act together on this one. It's
- slowly getting ridiculous.
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-
- -michael
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