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From: cochran@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Bob Cochran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: 8 mm EXABYTE on HP 835?
Message-ID: <67870030@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
Date: 31 May 91 20:05:45 GMT
References: <1991May29.144907.16134@astol.astro.lu.se>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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The 8.0 SCSI tape driver (tape14.c) does not support EXABYTE drives, although
the first tape drive it worked on was an EXABYTE.  The code that permitted
simple I/Os to EXABYTE still exists in the source product and is disabled
via "#ifdef EXABYTE" statements.