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In <1992Jul22.163319.5176@midway.uchicago.edu> eer1@midway.uchicago.edu(Paul Woods) writes:

| In article <1992Jul21.190637.13451@deepthought.uucp> deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu  
| (Neil Greene) writes:
| 
| > I have an 8200 (2.5G) drive which is probably the same as the 8500, unless  
| they  
| > have changed something I am unaware of.  You do not need any special drivers,  
| > just set your scsi id # (be sure to pick one which is not in use and don't use  
| > 7 or 1 since that is the cpu and default id for your internal hard disk.  If  
| > you have other scsi devices check your numbers).  
| 
| Actually I think I saw an article that stated " The 8200 is based on a standard  
| video mechanism and the 8500 is based on a more robust data quality unit"  I  
| could be wrong though

Exabyte has always claimed that the 8200 mechanism was redesigned from
the video mechanism.  The design still leaves a lot to be desired
though.  It remains to be seen if the 8500 will be better, as it hasn't
really been out all that long in volume.
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