On 01/30/2021 07:41 PM, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote:
btw, I found an Exabyte 8200 in a pile of stuff I bought at VCF East
last year (but one :-) ) Does anybody on the list have experience
getting this to work on a Dilog SQ703 under NetBSD?
Exabytes are pretty classic SCSi tape drives. They come in
single-ended and differential configurations, you need to
check which you have.
The downside is they have a short working life. Back in the
day, there were outfits that would
rebuild them at an affordable price, I think they
cannibalized video drives for parts.
I don't know what failed on them, but it seemed that
whatever it was would fail even if powered-off and sitting
on the shelf.
You should have no trouble running them on anything that
handles SCSI tape drives.
Jon
