--- Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> >Since the GOV also loved DEC, I'd be very surprised to learn that there's no
> >practical implementation available of the EXB8200 on a DEC machine...
>
> They do exist...I have a couple of subsystems here which have Exabyte
> drives in them (unmodified, regular SCSI drives) with bridge boards which
> go to SDI connectors on the other side.
We had a few of them on the VAXcluster at Lucent. Screwy damn things...
you had to double-tap one of the bridge-card buttons to unload the tapes;
they wouldn't unload with the internal eject button nor under VMS control.
I myself have more than one 8200. If anyone is looking, let me know.
-ethan
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Received on Sun Nov 28 1999 - 18:46:25 GMT