Hardware, SparcStation1's & Exabyte 8mm tape drives

[Greg Robertson]

Does anyone know the current level of support for Exabyte 8mm tape drives
in the standard SunOS release?  We have happily used these drives on our
3/110 & 4/330  under SunOS4.0.3.  'mt -f xxx stat' recognises the drives
ok, and we have only had a few problems to do with sending a rewind
command while the drive is flushing its cache.

However our SparcStation1 running 4.0.3c complains at boot time that the
drive is an "unrecognised device". A patch/enhancement tape is available
from Sun Consulting in the US but if this drive will be supported by the
SunOS4.1c release we would be rather have the new release.

Does anyone know why Exabyte drives aren't supported in SunOS4.0.3c ?  Are
they supported in SunOS4.1c ?  Are they even supported in SunOS4.1 ?

Greg.Robertson	(confused of Boston Manor)
Parsys Ltd.	(greg at parsys.co.uk)
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