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Article #10744Re: 8.0mm backup on a Sun 4/260
From: Ruth Milner
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1989 16:05
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1989 16:05
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Volume 7, Issue 115, message 14 of 18 Mike Begeman writes:
>I have talked to TTi about a backup unit for the Sun 4/260 and have not
>been able to get some questions answered. They said that their unit would
>hook into the external SCSI port on the back of the Sun. I have not been
>able to locate a SCSI port on the back of our Sun. I was just wondering
>if the SCSI port is internal to the machine, or if there is a VME board
>needed to connect an 8mm backup unit to a Sun 4.
If your Sun 4 came with a cartridge tape drive, it will have a SCSI port.
Otherwise you will need some kind of SCSI interface to plug it in with,
whether you get it from Sun, Ciprico, TTi, etc.
We plugged ours in on our Sun 4/280's SCSI OUT port, daisy-chained off the
1/4" tape, and it works fine.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: sysruth@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Ruth Milner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: 8.0mm backup on a Sun 4/260 Message-ID: <703@helios.toronto.edu> Date: 3 Feb 89 16:05:13 GMT References: <8901171830.AA00315@rice.edu> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA Computing Consortium Lines: 19 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 21:02:04 EST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 138, message 8 of 10 X-Issue-Reference: v7n115