EX8200's ( was Re: QBUS Board ID?

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Jul 10 16:55:48 2001

I've had no trouble getting the EXB-8200's to work on nearly any SCSI interface
with Win9x, NT4, DOS, Windows 3.x, various backup packages, and almost anything
else, aside from Win9x backup utilities, of which I've NEVER seen even one that
works reliably with SCSI-1 devices. Oddly enough, there's no evidence that any
of those backup programs use any SCSI-2 features.

There are diagnostic and test utilities available from EXABYTE's web site,
though I believe there's nothing that doesn't run under DOS. It might be worth
a look.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck McManis" <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 2:49 PM
Subject: EX8200's ( was Re: QBUS Board ID?


> At 10:16 PM 7/10/01 +0200, you wrote:
> >The EXB8200 is a rather strange device. It needs many quirks in the
> >SCSI driver to work. So it may be plain incompatible with the card. Or
> >the card wants a very special drive with a special firmware...
>
> I've noticed this about the 8200. I've got a CMD card that talks to EX8200s
> and so I tried it with two of the drives I have here.
>
> One drive is broken, it can't pass its own power on self test. I looked to
> see if there was anything obvious, when you power it on it goes "clunk-a",
> pause, "clunk-a", pause, "clunk-a". For about a minute and then the front
> lights flash. Does anyone want this one for parts or anything? If not I'll
> toss it.
>
> The second one goes "clunk-a, clunk-a, whirr, whirr" :-) and eventually is
> ready to receive a tape. When hooked to the CQD-223/T it works (slow but it
> works) and when hooked to the SMS card nothing happens. I've also got a
> CMS tape controller (looks a lot like the CMD one) and it works with the
> drive but it won't boot from the drive.
>
> I've got one more board to check with this drive to see if it will be
> usable in one of my VAXen. (I've got two other EX8200's so this one is
> definitely in the 'spare' category :-)
>
> --Chuck
>
>
Received on Tue Jul 10 2001 - 16:55:48 BST