Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 08:55:52 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 Message-ID: <199810021355.IAA00235@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> of "Thu, 01 Oct 1998 20:57:30 BST." <XFMail.981001205730.dmlb@computer.my.domain>
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Duncan Barclay writes: > The model I have has an LCD panel over the drive door. When the drive powers > up > it asks me to select a compression mode, there is a small round button on the > LCD which toggles a little "C" on the LCD, next to a "2". There is also an > extra card plugged into the SCSI connector which I think controls the LCD. > > This model doesn'y seem to be a standard Exabyte model and markings on the > chassis don't tell me much. Big LCD display, full width of the 5-1/4" drive, at least 2 lines high? Believe that is a Cybernetic Microsystems (?) model. Compression and the LCD display are handled by a custom CPU between the external SCSI bus and the internal exabyte SCSI. The company I'm thinking of advertises heavily in NASA Tech Briefs and other odd places. Think they have a web site too but I'm offline right now and can't go find it. As I recal, the only real problem with a Cybernetic tape drive is the compression is vendor unique. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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