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From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Sequent Exabyte comments wanted
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Date: 17 Jul 90 21:47:56 GMT
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Sequent charges $12,500 for their approved Exabyte drive.  Part of
this price is for firmware changes to prevent the drive from
hanging when dumping a large file system.  We are not happy about
this price.  Contemporary Cybernitics Group (CCG) sells an Exabyte
with a Pertec interface for considerably less.  The CY-8200-S81 is
supported on Sequents (by CCG), and presumably will work on an S27.
I'm waiting to hear from one of their engineer's about the "large
file system problem."  The other companies called only support
SCSI Exabytes on Macs, or HP and SUNs.

Have you have heard anything (good or bad) about CCG, or of any
problems with backing up large file systems.  The Cy-8200 sounds
very good over the phone and on paper; now I'm hunting for some
Symetry specific information.   Sequent's 8mm drive is made by
a company called Megatape.  I'm expecting them to call back this
afternoon.

						Thank You,

						Mike.

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