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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: <1992Aug21.042235.10317@portal.hq.videocart.com>
- Summary: We don't have any problems
- Organization: VideOcart Inc.
- References: <rvdp.714220940@yam.sow.econ.vu.nl> <1992Aug19.215506.7942@portal.hq.videocart.com> <rvdp.714299697@yam>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 04:22:35 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <rvdp.714299697@yam> rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol) writes:
- >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).
- >
- >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?
-
- We use an 8500 which works perfectly both with the rewind and non-rewind
- device.
-
- As for blocksize, I don't know -- we use cpio & mtio to do our backups,
- which is what "imageb" does and uses.
-
- --
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