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- From: fish@daacdev1.stx.com
- Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 firmware
- Message-ID: <fish.711814903@news2.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
- References: <31454@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:21:43 GMT
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- lsr-vax!art@uunet.uu.net (Art Hays - PSTAFF) writes:
-
- >Dave Olson worte on 14 Mar 92, <i8rksog@zuni.esd.sgi.com>:
- >|> We haven't even completed qualification of the 8500 yet, as far as I
- >|> know. There are no hardware changes, just a different firmware rev.
- ...
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- >And also in <ip4s4o4@zuni.esd.sgi.com>:
- >|> The 8500 (5 Gb) isn't fully qualified (by SGI) yet, and there is some
- ...
-
- well, this is really confusing because i just got two 8500's purchased
- from SGI (does this mean it isn't "fully qualified" yet its shipping???
- dave (or anybody else) can you clarify this?)
-
- fish
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