Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!husc6!bu-cs!jdh From: jdh@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jason Heirtzler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Problems with Exabyte Message-ID: <36317@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 12 Aug 89 04:21:24 GMT References: <35820@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <39568@sgi.SGI.COM> Reply-To: jdh@bu-it.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler) Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi Distribution: na Organization: Boston University Information Technology Lines: 19 In article <39568@sgi.SGI.COM> markb@denali.sgi.com (Mark Bradley) says: >Silicon Graphics recommends that you buy the 8mm helical scan tape drive >from Silicon Graphics--NOT from Introl. It works just fine on our MP >and non-MP machines off our own SCSI and with our own driver. I have not >seen nor had the opportunity to test Introl's product, hence it is not >presently blessed as functional on our systems, as far as I know. Well, that may be what they recommend now, but it wasn't what they recommended a little while ago! We purchased this drive on advice from our SGI rep. A question to the SGI people on the net: will the SGI 8mm tape driver be available as part of the standard kernel in the next OS release 3.2 (?) or will this be supplied on a special tape to those that purchased the unit directly from SGI ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jason Heirtzler (617) 353-2780 jdh@bu-it.bu.edu Information Technology Boston University ..!harvard!bu-cs!bu-it!jdh