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From: mathisen@dali.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: 8mm tapes on DECstation 5000 (again?)
Message-ID: <2479@dali>
Date: 25 Sep 90 16:36:09 GMT
References: <1990Sep24.142800.22883@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman MT 59717
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In article <1990Sep24.142800.22883@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> fox@VIXEN.NSCL.MSU.EDU writes:
>
>  My apologies, since I'm sure this has been asked before (many times?),
>however I'm a new subscriber.  Does anyone have a reliably working 8mm
>tape drive on the SCSI port of a DECSTATION-5000?  If so, which manufacturer,
>and how do you configure it into the system.
>  The DS-5000 I'll be getting in the next few weeks will by our first UNIX
>system, so apologies for my ignorance in advance.






I'm using a Contemporary Cybernetics 8mm drive.  It plugged and played
right out of the box.  The only problems is that the default unit is #0,
but that hasn't been a problem.  I'm sure it's changeable, I just haven't
needed to.