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<sigh> Well, it looks like it's time for an RMA for this DLT.  Thanks
everyone for the help.

<rant>
Whatever happened to SCSI backward compatibility?
</rant>

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote:

> > The only difference I can see is that the DLT is "differential" SCSI,
> > which, AFAIK, just allows it to work with a longer bus.  Is there
> > something that has to be done to the host adapter to accomodate
> > differential devices?
> 
> You can't use that DLT with anything other than a HVD differential 
> controller.  Don't confuse this with LVD, which is designed for backwards 
> support of single-ended devices.
> 
> You can get a quite respectable, low-cost HVD differential controller 
> from Corpsys - www.corpsys.com.
> 
> -- 
> \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
> \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
> \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com
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