Conference ssag::ask_ssag

Title:	Ask the Storage Architecture Group
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Moderator:	SSAG::TERZAN

Created:	Wed Oct 15 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	6756
Total number of notes:	25276

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
4907.1		LEFTY::CWILLIAMS	CD or not CD, that's the question	`Thu Nov 02 1995 07:32`	4
4907.2		STAR::S_SOMMER		`Fri Nov 03 1995 09:32`	5
4907.3	which firmware is working ?	MUCCS1::NEUMAYR	flying high_falling deep	`Wed Jan 22 1997 02:56`	20
4907.4	ymmv.	JULIET::ROYER	New Year - New Attitude!	`Thu Jan 23 1997 08:58`	8
4907.5	some things just aren't to spec, similar problems on UNIX	DECWET::LENOX	Spring Training is less than a month away!	`Thu Jan 23 1997 09:52`	15
4907.6	Known Working Exabyte EXB-8200 At Customer Site	XDELTA::HOFFMAN	Steve, OpenVMS Engineering	`Wed Jan 29 1997 15:07`	19
	The Exabyte EXB-8200 drive (SCSI-1) with the current Exabyte firmware revision (no, I don't know what that version number is) works correctly with OpenVMS VAX up through V7.1, and -- with a patched MKDRIVER -- works correctly on that release. (One of the OpenVMS SDK sites encountered this problem with the 7.1 field test -- the MKDRIVER patch is still being tested, and is not yet widely available.) From a SYS$ETC:SCSI_INFO (V6.2 and later) on the EXB-8200, here's what a (working) EXB-8200 drive returns: ... $! Vendor Identification : EXABYTE $! $! Product Identification: EXB-8200 $! $! Product Revision Level: 2618 ...