Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: 8mm off a VME/SCSI adaptor Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <569@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 28 Jul 89 19:12:36 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 8 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 86, message 8 of 18 I'm trying to get an Exabyte 8mm tape unit for my Sun 3/280 with a VME buss, running SUNOS 4.0.1, and I would rather not have to install a "foreign" driver in the kernel. Salesmen, who all lie, have been giving me conflicting information. Has anyone installed an 8 mm tape unit using a VME to SCSI adaptor on a Sun 3/2xx which used the driver already present in the Sun OS? If so, from which vendor did you aquire it?