From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 3 15:05:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA28914 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 15:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwnexus.wa.com (nwnexus.wa.com [192.135.191.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA28901 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 15:05:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.statsci.com by nwnexus.wa.com with SMTP id AA02026 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 3 Sep 1996 15:05:32 -0700 Received: from statsci.com [206.63.206.4] with smtp by main.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0uy3b7-0003xQC; Tue, 3 Sep 96 15:05 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Cc: Michael Smith , bmcgloth@mail.vt.edu, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DAT for sure! References: <199609022239.MAA01420@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Sep 1996 12:39:24 -1000." <199609022239.MAA01420@pegasus.com> Reply-To: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 15:05:29 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) wrote: > No, honest, I'm not kidding (and I'm still alive!). I've used quite a > few of these drives and I know others that have had good results with > them too. Here's what my 2.1.5-STABLE system says: > > (aha0:2:0): "EXABYTE EXB-8200 252X" type 1 removable SCSI 1 ...and mine registers as "EXABYTE EXB-8200 265T" and (if I remember correctly) has a manufacture date in late 1994. > No glitches, no messing around, it just works. Yup...me too. > There were some problems with some Exabytes in the past, but that was a > *long* time ago. And even back then they mostly worked. Many of the > problems in the past were due to shakey device drivers -- but that's > because Exabytes go way back. I've heard those sorts of stories too, but I think they were about drives from 1991 or thereabouts. When I mentioned to someone that I was considering buying one, I got the definite recommendation to avoid the old ones. Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org