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From: bharbour@teleport.com (Bob Harbour)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8mm and FreeBSD
Date: 17 May 1996 04:07:14 GMT
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Ken Stox (stox@dcdkc.fnal.gov) wrote:
: Is anyone successfully using an Exabyte 8mm drive with FreeBSD ?

: 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.

I am using an 860? exabyte with no problems on an adaptec 1542 board. I 
have not tried to move over half a meg to it though.

--
Bob Harbour
bharbour@teleport.com