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- From: ferrel@BoysTown.ORG (Roger Ferrel)
- Subject: Re: summus gigatape
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.145551.337@BoysTown.ORG>
- Organization: Boys Town National Research Hospital
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:55:51 GMT
-
- >I have a NeXT cube 68040 version 2.0 of the system.
-
- >I recently obtained a Summus gigatape drive that is about 2 years old. It
- >uses 8mm tapes that can hold up to 2.1 Gigabytes each. (I am hoping to use it
- >to back up several systems.) The gigatape has a SCSI port which I have
- >connected to the NeXT (it has a terminator on the other SCSI connection).
-
- >I have tried connecting this device with several different port numbers, but
- >so far the NeXT does not detect the device at boot time.
-
- >Is there something simple I'm missing? Has anyone else tried connecting this
- >device to a NeXT?
-
- >I've tried contacting the company, but all their phones have been
- >disconnected.
-
- >Please E-mail me your replys, and I'll summarize and post the results.
-
- >Thank for you help.
-
- Thanks to Glen Diener and Mark Monnin (I'm sure there will be others, but
- they were the first two) the problem is solved.
-
- It seems on these Summus tapes and other Exabyte tape drive you must wait
- for the ready light to come on before booting your machine. Once I did this
- the NeXT detected the drive, and configured it to be the default tape drive
- used by dump.
-
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