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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 3-rd party 8mm Drives
Summary: alternative explanation?
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.184449.24330@ico.isc.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 18:44:49 GMT
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jpe@egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) writes:

> ...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...

I think "crufty" is a little more interpretation than the situation
deserves.  Would it be too cynical to suggest that they only wanted to
support the drives they sell...and that the way to achieve this was to
make the drives they sell incompatible with other 8mm drives?
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.