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#! rnews 2642 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!scramble.lm.com!dns.pulsenet.com!news From: Paul Sivie <psivie@pulsenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI Compatible Tape drives Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 09:10:27 -0400 Organization: ALCOSAN Lines: 29 Message-ID: <320F2D43.6C73@pulsenet.com> References: <31FF7C22.72A6@sloan.org> <Pine.BSI.3.94.960802085343.3663D-100000@picard.chickasaw.com> <1996Aug2.162256.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> <Pine.BSI.3.94.960805095119.17110D-100000@picard.chickasaw.com> <1996Aug5.150904.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> <1996Aug6.153741.12536@ans.net> <1996Aug7.042622.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm1_p18.pulsenet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; U) Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr. wrote: > > In article <1996Aug6.153741.12536@ans.net>, sia@sloan.org (Christopher T. Sia) writes: > > It's nice to know you're from Saint Peter's College. I practically play > > basketball on Friday nights at the gym with a group of guys. I started this > > thread and I was wondering if anyone would know if the Exabyte Eagle96 which > > is on sale this week at Compusa is compatible with the BSDI? > > I've only used 4MM drives, but a friend of mine has some sort of Exabyte > on his BSDI box and it works Ok. I believe it's an 8200-style (older) unit, > but if the older ones work the newer ones "should" as well. > > CompUSA stuff is 30-day returnable, right? Couldn't hurt to try it... > > Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing > terry@spcvxa.spc.edu St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA > +1 201 915 9381 (voice) +1 201 435-3662 (FAX) I have a Exabyte 8200 running on BSDI 2.1 which works great. It also worked on BSDI 2.0, however, it refused to work when I applied the 2.0.1 patches. Kept giving me a media error after the upgrade. Emailed BSD and tech support told me it was a bad tape, SCSI cable or terminator. According to BSD ALL 30 of my tapes went bad at the same time since I didn't even open the server. Tech support also told me that nothing was changed with the tape drivers or dump program. They lied! After the next patch the tape drive fixed itself and has been running fine ever since. You might want to beat up BSD a little since "they support ALL SCSI tape drives." If you are using dump you may want to try an older version for grins Paul Sive