Dell UNIX compatibility question (streamer)

[Robert Rothe]

dave at pmafire.inel.gov (Dave Remien) writes:

>In article <1141 at applix.com> scotte at applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes:
>+>Also, DELL only ships on 150Meg tape, right?  Is there a way to get going
>+>with a SCSI tape drive (i.e., is there a boot floppy kernel with enough
>+>brains to allow pkgadd from the SCSI tape??)  The DELL guy didn't know,
>+>and never returned me an answer...

>Dell loads fine off an Adaptec 154x with Archive 2150S tape. The boot
>disks know about it immediately. I'm running it on an AIR 25MHz '486;
>with a Maxtor 8760S drive. I get occasional hangs, but I think I've got
>some flaky hardware in the machine at this point.
>-- 

What other scsi-streamers are supported ? how about the tandberg TDC 3820 ?

	robert.


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