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From: lee@unmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Online Formatter for 4.2BSD
Message-ID: <931@unmvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 03:21:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  4 03:21:00 1985
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> 
> In that SI hardware and 4.2BSD drivers are not compatible, I would venture
> a guess that SI software and normal DEC hardware are also not compatible.
> 
> 						Jeff

 Not true! 4.1BSD had no problems at all. When SI ships you your hardware
they ship drivers that work for DEC devices in your original drivers
and their hardware too. Under VMS everything they ship seems to work
fine. For 4.1BSD there is an on-line formatter, program to re-vector blocks
and other utilities (I can't remember now) that work great too. Under 4.2BSD
we couldn't get the utilities they sent out to work but the driver reports
bad block numbers correctly. In short the SI drivers (at least) seem to work
fine with the above mentioned OS's. The utilities work for the majority and
by now probably work for all of them. SI software support seems very good,
we just haven't ordered the latest-greatest from them.


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			--Lee (Ward)
			{ucbvax,convex,gatech,pur-ee}!unmvax!lee


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