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Re: Exabyte 8200 I/O Error. Wrong block size?

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From: larryw
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 03:05
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In <40lv5a$k0m@smarty.smart.net>, davemacz@smart.net (Dave Maczis) writes:
>I'm not positive this is your problem, but when trying to use 
>this drive under OS/2 Warp, with Back Again/2, I had problems, 
>and the software company advise that the drive was not totally
>SCSI compliant. They advised to update the ROMs in the drive.
>NB: The drive still didn't work with their program. It does work
>fine with programs that directly support it.

  You are correct that the Exabyte 8200 & BA/2 don't get along well together
I personally ended up returning BA/2 to where I purchased it and exchanged it
for Sytos Premium which works well with my 8200 as well as my Adaptec 1742
scsi card.

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From: larryw@primenet.com
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Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 I/O Error.  Wrong block size?
Date: 14 Aug 1995 03:05:09 GMT
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