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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: EISA boards
Message-ID: <2677@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 90 03:59:43 GMT
References: <6316@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <6316@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:

| Of course, WangTek tape drives (save their DAT's) aren't that great of a
| machine.  I remember adding one to a customer's Sun SPARCstation 1+ and it
| never quite did work 100% of the time.  Finally, it died completely a couple
| of weeks ago.  I called up MicroNet for the RMA and found out they don't
| bundle WangTek tape drives with their storage systems anymore.  Too many
| problems with them.  So I ended up replacing the WangTek with what MicroNet
| supports now; a Tandberg.  Never had a problem with it again.

  We have a lot of Wanteks in Suns, and they seem reasonably reliable. I
don't know what your dataset is (more than the one machine I assume), we
have about 400 Suns, with maybe 100 tape equipped. My buddy who sells
database applications with a server bundled likes them, and he may have
to fly a thousand miles to install a new one in some cases.

  I can't compare with anything in quantity, but they have always been
good to me.
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bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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