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From: BEGEMAN@MCOIARC.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Exabyte tape drive installation?
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 7 Apr 89 06:45:51 GMT
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Original-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 16:27 EST
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I have a few questions about installing an Exabyte 8 mm backup unit on a
Sun 4/260.  We bought the drive and board for the sun from TTi
(Transitional Technology Inc).  We are running SunOS 3.2.  I reconfigured
the kernal to what they specified in the manual and rebooted the sun with
no problem (I had not placed the SCSI adapter board in yet).  I took out
the existing board in slot 7 of the Sun and placed the TTi board in (which
is actually a Ciprico Rimfire 3500 board).  I made sure that I had the
tape drive on and plugged into the new board in case it had to test the
status of the drive when booting.  I then tried to reboot the system, and
it gets to the point of printing "Auto-Boot in progress" and then just
hangs there forever.  If anyone has any experience with a Ciprico board or
installing Exabyte drives, I would appreciate your suggestions.

Mike Begeman
Software Engineer
begeman@mcoiarc

P.S.  I have called TTi many times and they have been of very little help
and have never installed this drive in a Sun 4.