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- From: rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4: no SCSI support for Exabyte and/or CDROM?
- Message-ID: <rvdp.714299697@yam>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 08:34:57 GMT
- References: <rvdp.714220940@yam.sow.econ.vu.nl> <1992Aug19.215506.7942@portal.hq.videocart.com>
- Sender: news@cca.vu.nl
- Organization: SOW-VU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- kdenning@portal.hq.videocart.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
-
- >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).
-
- Oops, my fault. It is when we use a *rewinding* device that we get
- I/O-errors. How about that? Do you know what PROM revision your
- Exabyte has. Ours has "firmware 2618". Do you use ufsdump/ufsrestore
- or something else for your backups. What blocksize do you use?
-
- --
- Ronald van der Pol
- rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl
-