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Article #5513Re: Exabyte--SCSI or Q-bus *or* BI-bus
From: Dan Packman
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 22:45
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 22:45
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In article <9510@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
eric@geology.tn.cornell.edu writes:
>We are contemplating the purchase of an Exabyte 8mm tape drive
>for our system. There is a choice about whether to connect it
>to our VMS MicroVAX II (Q-bus) or to our DECstation 3100.
In a similar vein, we have an old VAX 8300 with both unibus and
BI bus. What are the relative performance hits with the uni-bus
version of an 8mm unit versus a unibus version?
Dan Packman NCAR INTERNET: pack@ncar.UCAR.EDU
(303) 497-1427 P.O. Box 3000 CSNET: pack@ncar.CSNET
Boulder, CO 80307 DECNET SPAN: 9.367::PACK
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!acdpyr!pack From: pack@acdpyr.ucar.edu (Dan Packman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Exabyte--SCSI or Q-bus *or* BI-bus Keywords: 8mm, SCSI, Q-BUS, BI-BUS, exabyte Message-ID: <5939@ncar.ucar.edu> Date: 8 Jan 90 22:45:31 GMT References: <9510@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu Reply-To: pack@acdpyr.UCAR.EDU (Dan Packman) Distribution: na Organization: Atmospheric Chemistry Division/NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 13