AT&T SysV Rel 4.0 - SCSI Complaints
Brandon Brown
brando at uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu
Fri May 10 23:42:45 AEST 1991
gantzm at gantz.bowlgreen.oh.us (gantzm) writes:
> This is mainly directed to people who work for AT&T or
>have "AWESOME" knowledge about AT&T programmer & management types.
>I have purchased AT&T System V Release 4.0 (2.1) for use with
>SCSI drives. Well guess what,, this system will only work with
>AT&T SCSI controllers and AT&T hard drives. Does anybody know
>why this is?? My dealer has been spending much time on the phone
>with AT&T reps. He has received two responses from AT&T:
Well at a site I do some consulting for, we were really pissed at this
also. It seems that AT&T looks for the SCSI ident string on the drive, and
that is how it determines whether or not it is a supported device. This also
includes all SCSI tape drives too. As for the fix, you might as well forget
it. It was obviously hardcoded so f**king AT&T could sell more of their own
equipment.
I know, I can't believe it either. So much for "open systems".....
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