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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!kdenning
- From: kdenning@portal.hq.videocart.com (Karl Denninger)
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4: no SCSI support for Exabyte and/or CDROM?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.215506.7942@portal.hq.videocart.com>
- Summary: Funny, we use an Exabyte here without problems!
- Organization: VideOcart Inc.
- References: <rvdp.714220940@yam.sow.econ.vu.nl>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 21:55:06 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <rvdp.714220940@yam.sow.econ.vu.nl> rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol) writes:
- >
- >It looks like Dell SVR4 (Issue 2.1) does *not* support the SCSI
- >Exabyte 8200 and does *not* support CDROM.
- >When using the non-rewinding device with the Exabyte we get
- >I/O-errors. Also only 32k block writes seem to be supported.
- >
- >How many of you use SCSI systems (we have a SCSI-only system).
- >Do you want support for DAT/Exabyte/CDROM? How about other
- >vendors, do they support the above? Are there any third party
- >SCSI drivers and/or CDROM support (including all utilities and
- >filesystems)?
-
- That's funny, we use an Exabyte here on an Intel machine with DELL SVR4
- issue 2.1 and it seems to work just fine..... (and we do multiple save-set
- backups).
-
- Yes, we have had to restore those ;-)
-
- Haven't tried a CDROM.
-
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