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From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Subject: Re: EXABYTE EXB-4200c
Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands 
Message-ID: <E37709.HIs@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 23:09:45 GMT
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>mark@ka.net (Mark Kinney) writes:

>>bha0:  Operation time excees #### seconds
>>
>>this message repeats every 30 seconds until I reboot the machine.
>>
>>Has anyone experienced this, or does anyone have any ideas?

>I've also heard from a guy who had nothing but troubles with his
>EXB4200.  Parts of his troubles went away when always having a
>formatted cartridge in the drive at boot time, AFAIR.

>Doesn't seem that Exabyte did a good job with the 4200 series.

Hm. I played with one a couple of days. Worked OK in my limited 
experience.

Swapped it for a 1 Gb disk so I can no longer try it.
Maybe mine had different drive firmware? Dunno about the 4200
but the Exabyte 8x00 have quite some different fw versions
floating around.

Wilko