Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: dwf%lambda@lanl.gov (Dave Forslund) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: 8mm 2.3 GB Video Backup Device Query Message-ID: <8811182142.AA28628@lambda.lanl.gov> Date: 1 Dec 88 16:01:52 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 11 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 88 14:42:37 MST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 32, message 2 of 17 X-Issue-Reference: v7n17 Sun-Spots-Request@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre): > We're evaluating a few Exabyte-style tape drives.... > My question: anybody know under why I should pay over $1,000 more for a > custom driver? Why buy a device driver? We just hung our exabyte drive on a Sun3 SCSI port (Sun si driver OS4.0) and it works just like a 1/4" tape and dumps at the rate of 800Mbytes/hour. Dave Forslund Los Alamos National Laboratory