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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.714424887@yam>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 19:21:27 GMT
- References: <rvdp.714220940@yam.sow.econ.vu.nl> <1992Aug19.215506.7942@portal.hq.videocart.com> <3731@randvax.rand.org> <BtC0B1.L67@gator.rn.com>
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- Organization: SOW-VU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
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- -edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
-
- ->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
-
- -Dell sells the Sony CD-Roms -- but like you mentioned, there
- -is currently no support to mount the CD-Rom so it would be up
- -to the user to write utilities or a file system for the device.
-
- And do they tell the buyers it won't work on Dell SVR4? No utilities
- and/or filesystem support is no support!!
- Why is SCSI support so minimal in the PC world? Workstations support
- new SCSI devices like Exabyte, DAT, CD-ROM very soon after the new
- devices hit the market!
-
- --
- Ronald van der Pol
- rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl
-