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- From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4: no SCSI support for Exabyte and/or CDROM?
- Message-ID: <3731@randvax.rand.org>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 00:13:41 GMT
- References: <rvdp.714220940@yam.sow.econ.vu.nl> <1992Aug19.215506.7942@portal.hq.videocart.com>
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- In article <1992Aug19.215506.7942@portal.hq.videocart.com> 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.
- . . . .
- >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).
-
- Unless Dell has broken something, they should also support a Toshiba
- 3201A CD-ROM or similar with a 1542 SCSI controller. It's in the
- SVR4.0.3 release. However, these are just the calls to control the
- drive and read the data; you can't mount CD-ROMs as a filesystem,
- alas. Also, I can't vouch for their robustness, although I know folks
- who have used them.
-
- -Ed Hall
- edhall@rand.org
-