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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Exabyte 2.2 Gb Streamer for ISC
Message-ID: <1990Aug11.112323.10211@pegasus.com>
Date: 11 Aug 90 11:23:23 GMT
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X-Local-Date: 11 Aug 90 04:23:23 PDT

>I installed a 2.2G tape drive and a 720M hard drive in a system about 6 months
>ago.  The hard drive works great!!!  The tape drive STINKS!  Sorry to be so
>harsh, but the tape drive needs turned on and off 2 to 4 times per week!  This

Exabyte's has a reputation for being fairly reliable.  I suspect you got
a bad one, or more likely a bad vendor/driver.

If I could afford an Exabyte I'd own one myself.  I've seen a lot of
feedback about Exabytes on the net, (mostly in comp.sys.sun) and the
majority of it has been favorable.


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com