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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
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In article <1180@fai.UUCP> ronc@fai.fai.com (Ronald O. Christian) writes:
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>
>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