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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8mm and FreeBSD
Date: 16 May 1996 12:29:35 GMT
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stox@dcdkc.fnal.gov (Ken Stox) wrote:

> Is anyone successfully using an Exabyte 8mm drive with FreeBSD ?

Occasionally.

> I recently tried and 8500C with FreeBSD 2.2-current and it locks the 
> system up solid after transferring a gig or so of data.

Never seen, but i admit that i haven't tried multi-gigabyte
transfers.  Mine is a 850<something> sitting on an AHA-2940.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)