Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 20:49:07 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: scsi@freebsd.org Cc: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 Message-ID: <Mutt.19970103204907.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701031321.HAA08056@bonkers.taronga.com>; from Peter da Silva on Jan 3, 1997 07:21:25 -0600 References: <199701031321.HAA08056@bonkers.taronga.com>
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As Peter da Silva wrote: > FreeBSD doesn't like Exabyte 8200s at all. I've tried with a 1540B, a 1742, > and a 2940. And no matter what controller I use it's really flakey and > unreliable. I don't love the Exabytes anyway (still having one 8505 drive there that doesn't want to spit out the cassette anymore, grrr). Surprisingly enough, the 8200 that's sitting somewhere on a shelf works fairly flawlessly, except that it also sometimes believes it were better to keep the cassette swallowed. Maybe it's firmware dependant? I think Exabyte has a reputation of a patch-of-the-week firmware. (Sorry, our 8200 is at work, so i can't get at the firmware rev right now.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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