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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dell UNIX compatibility question
Message-ID: <3362@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 91 02:44:24 GMT
References: <27CAE13D.237A@tct.uucp> <1991Feb27.165732.28273@nstar.rn.com> <1141@applix.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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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...

  The boot disk will boot nicely from SCSI. Although Dell refuses to
ship on 60MB tapes, they did for beta testers, and their drivers work
with PC-36, EV-811, Wangtek 5099, 5125... seem reasonably robust.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me