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Re: Exabyte working under 4.0.3?

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From: Michael van Elst
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 11:27
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In article <4414@brazos.Rice.edu> anthony@nereid.sal.ists.ca (David M. Anthony) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 13, message 12 of 19
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>Could someone please confirm or deny the fact that Exabyte 8mm tape backup
>systems *do not* work properly under SunOS 4.0.3.

The Exabyte 8mm tape works under SunOS4.0.3. We use it frequently for
system and image data backups (some 100meg a day). The only limitation is
that the driver supports only blocksizes that are a multiple of 1024 bytes
(that's the Exabytes physical block size).

Michael van Elst
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From: mpirbn!p554mve@uunet.uu.net (Michael van Elst)
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Subject: Re: Exabyte working under 4.0.3?
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