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Re: SCSI on Sun 4/280

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From: Evan Bauman
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 14:20
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>Is it true that Sun only supports the old SCSI 2 boards (the ones without
>disconnect) on the 4/280, and not the newer SCSI 3 boards. Is it for
>4/390, 4/490?  Anyone have a SCSI 2 board they want to get rid of?

Where did you hear this?  It isn't true.  We just installed a SCSI-3 board
in our 4/280.  It runs both a 1/4" cartridge tape on rst0 and an 8mm
Exabyte on rst1.  Both have been humming along for several weeks now.

The whole package (board plus tape units) came from Artecon.

	Evan G. Bauman
	Shell Development Company - Westhollow Research Center
	PO Box 1380; Houston, TX 77251-1380
	bauman@shell.com   or for the uucp types: {sun,bcm}!shell!bauman

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