Also look for different versions of the onboard firmware. Exabytes are
quite picky and tempermental when they are hooked up to various host
controllers and their firmware is not the right rev. I used to run into
this a lot with these drives and the 8500 jukeboxes when it came to Legato
backup software on Netware and Solaris servers.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Turnbull" <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: Indigo2 and Exabyte 8200
> On Jun 18, 10:14, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> > Well I finally found a system that still likes my Exabyte
> > 8200. My Mac's have never liked it and my Amiga's were tempermental
> > with it, not always working. My SGI Indigo2 appears to happily deal
> > with it though, even if it is quite slow. Is there a way of making a
> > backup done to it bootable?
>
> I don't know for sure that it works with an Exabyte 8200, but look for an
> executable file called mkboottape (and then "man mkboottape" and distcp
>
> --
> Pete Peter Turnbull
> Network Manager
> University of York
Received on Tue Jun 18 2002 - 17:50:07 BST