Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!gryphon!hacgate!neal From: neal@hacgate.scg.hac.com (Neal Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent Subject: Re: 2 Gb cartridge tape drive Message-ID: <1437@hacgate.scg.hac.com> Date: 7 Dec 88 19:54:16 GMT References: <2400029@kailand> <1180@fai.UUCP> Reply-To: neal@hacgate.scg.hac.com (Neal Thompson) Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA Lines: 17 In article <1180@fai.UUCP> ronc@fai.fai.com (Ronald O. Christian) writes: ... > >If memory serves, Sequent is evaluating the Exabyte even as I write. >(Source: The last SURF meeting.) As I recall, the issue was not the >interface between the Exabyte and the Symmetry, but that the Exabyte >had reliability problems. I guess we'll find out. We're presently ... At a recent SURF meeting in Newport Beach, I asked a Sequent Tech Support guy about the Exabyte. He said that Sequent's SCSI was so finely tuned that he guaranteed the Exabyte wouldn't work. I'd be happy to hear that Sequent had solved that problem and could connect an Exabyte (or any similar drive) to the SCSI. Neal Thompson neal@hacgate.scg.hac.com