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From: amaranth@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Paul Amaranth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 3-rd party 8mm Drives
Message-ID: <5831@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 91 17:45:09 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.185853.17502@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <1397@cameron.egr.duke.edu>
Reply-To: amaranth@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Paul Amaranth)
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In article <1397@cameron.egr.duke.edu> jpe@egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) writes:
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>Yes.  As it turns out, IBM decided the standard Exabyte PROM was a bit
>crufty so they replaced it with their own.  A standard SCSI 8mm drive
>will therefore not work with the RS/6000.  The two options 3rd-party
>vendors have are: to write a device driver for their drive, or to make
>their tape drive work like IBM's.

The (oh no!) April 1 issue of _Unix Today_ has an ad on page 72 for
ICE Communications which talks about "low cost" add ons for the 6000,
including Exabyte and DAT.  I have no experience with this company,
but I thought the ad interesting enough to pull for my tickler file.
It looks like they wrote their own drivers.  The wording on the ad seems
a bit strange ..., but maybe that's just me.  Anyone know anything about
these folks?

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