lgl@cac.washington.edu (Laurence Lundblade) (08/07/90)
There's a rumor, according to Digital Review, that DEC 4mm tape
drives don't work very well, if at all, and that DEC is giving VAX
4000 customers 8mm drives instead of 4mm drives. We've had one on order
from DEC for a while now and are wondering when and what we might get.
Thanks for your comments.
Laurence Lundblade 206-543-5617
lgl@cac.washington.edu
Networks and Distributed Computing, U of Washington, Seattle
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Laurence Lundblade 206-543-5617
lgl@cac.washington.edu
Networks and Distributed Computing, U of Washington, Seattleroot@mjbtn.JOBSOFT.COM (Mark J. Bailey) (08/09/90)
lgl@cac.washington.edu (Laurence Lundblade) writes: >There's a rumor, according to Digital Review, that DEC 4mm tape >drives don't work very well, if at all, and that DEC is giving VAX >4000 customers 8mm drives instead of 4mm drives. We've had one on order >from DEC for a while now and are wondering when and what we might get. >Thanks for your comments. >Laurence Lundblade 206-543-5617 > lgl@cac.washington.edu > Networks and Distributed Computing, U of Washington, Seattle This is third hand, but one local group was *supposed* to have theirs back in May, and were recently promised delivery of the DEC 4mm by the middle of August. Well, similar to your finding, I have heard that it may now be *NOVEMBER*!!! I heard one user comment that come the middle of the month, something (4 or 8mm) had best better be on a truck headed their way! :-) They also had a bad experience with Inbound SCSI harddisk drives not talking DEC SCSI (this was on a DecStation 3100) and I think another 3rd party 4mm SCSI drive as well. That is about all I have heard. Mark.
braun@drivax.UUCP (Kral) (08/10/90)
In article <649@mjbtn.JOBSOFT.COM> root@mjbtn.JOBSOFT.COM (Mark J. Bailey) writes: >They also had a bad experience with Inbound SCSI >harddisk drives not talking DEC SCSI (this was on a DecStation 3100) >and I think another 3rd party 4mm SCSI drive as well. I'm not sure what Mark means by 'inbound SCSI harddisk drives', but I have this comment to offer: we purchased an MV3100 (Ultrix 3.x) and a pair of Fuji M22633s 665 MB drives. It turns out there is a cacheing problem in the disk firmware that results in disk corruption. This is known by DEC (in Santa Clara, at least) and Fujitsu to corrupt data in a VMS environment. We have had just enough problems getting our Ultrix system up to believe we have the same problem. This makes me wonder if DEC has changed something in their SCSI interface... -- kral * 408/647-6112 * {uunet|amdahl}!drivax!braun * braun%drivax@uunet.uu.net The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov [Friends don't let friends use DOS]