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From: leadley@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Scott Leadley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: 8mm off a VME/SCSI adaptor
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 17 Aug 89 18:24:25 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 98, message 1 of 15

In article <569@brazos.Rice.edu> abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer) writes:
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<>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?  

We bought ours from Applied Digital in Fairport, NY (about 10 miles from
the U of R) because it was convenient.  But, the really good news is that
you don't need a new driver at all!  I was told, and have verified, that
the SunOS 4.0.3 driver is adequate to the task. 

				Scott Leadley - leadley@cc.rochester.edu