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From: rot@unlisys.in-berlin.de (Robert Rothe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dell UNIX compatibility question (streamer)
Keywords: Dell V.4, Adaptec, SCSI tape
Message-ID: <5605@unlisys.in-berlin.de>
Date: 1 Mar 91 20:32:15 GMT
References: <27CAE13D.237A@tct.uucp> <1991Feb27.165732.28273@nstar.rn.com> <1141@applix.com> <1991Feb28.200158.28276@pmafire.inel.gov>
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dave@pmafire.inel.gov (Dave Remien) writes:

>In article <1141@applix.com> scotte@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes:
>+>Also, DELL only ships on 150Meg tape, right?  Is there a way to get going
>+>with a SCSI tape drive (i.e., is there a boot floppy kernel with enough
>+>brains to allow pkgadd from the SCSI tape??)  The DELL guy didn't know,
>+>and never returned me an answer...

>Dell loads fine off an Adaptec 154x with Archive 2150S tape. The boot
>disks know about it immediately. I'm running it on an AIR 25MHz '486;
>with a Maxtor 8760S drive. I get occasional hangs, but I think I've got
>some flaky hardware in the machine at this point.
>-- 

What other scsi-streamers are supported ? how about the tandberg TDC 3820 ?

	robert.


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