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From: mason@Feanor.Stanford.EDU (Tony Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: non-DEC disks on VAXstation 3100?
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Date: 8 Feb 89 01:38:49 GMT
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I couldn't help but noticing that in scsi_data.c there is a "tz88" defined
claiming to be an Exebyte EXB-8200.  I plugged our EXB-8200 in and the system
did, in fact, recognize it and claim it had an attached TZ88.  When trying to
use said, it complains: "drive selftest failed, code = 0x8".  Sigh.  The
question then becomes is DEC assuming something about this Exebyte drive that
I don't know.  (Someday, kernel sources will arrive which will make this
question much easier to answer...)

Tony Mason
Distributed Systems Group
Stanford University
mason@pescadero.stanford.edu