From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 29 16: 7:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13DE14C95 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:07:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id AAA25569; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:39:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.6.12) id AAA14008; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:36:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199904292236.AAA14008@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Further on tape & CAM problems In-Reply-To: <19990429164138.A89144@luke.pmr.com> from Bob Willcox at "Apr 29, 1999 4:41:38 pm" To: bob@pmr.com Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:36:25 +0200 (CEST) Cc: bob@pmr.com, cjohnson@neunacht.netgsi.com, shocking@prth.pgs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Bob Willcox wrote ... > On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 10:26:36PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > As Bob Willcox wrote ... > > > On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 08:45:36PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > shipping 8200's (this was right at their end-of-life) was: > > > > > > MX: 2680 > > > SV: C034 > > > > > > This is for generic models. OEM models may have different versions > > > due to customizations. > > > > And these are not recommended for general use. > > Hmm, why is that? The newest of the IBM branded Exabyte 8200's that I That is what I've been told by an Exabyte engineer years back. I can only guess that some OEMs need adaptations to the firmware behaviour that are incompatible with what the rest of the world needs (or has standardised on, e.g. in the ANSI SCSI standard). Again, guessing. > have have precisely these firmware levels in them (2680 & C034). Also, Mine works OK with that f/w. Not that I use the 8200 often anymore, I like my DLT4000 much better than the 8200. ;-) Groeten / Cheers, | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message