markb@denali.sgi.com (Mark Bradley) (07/27/89)
The forwarding of bad tracks was incorrect, albeit to the spec provided for
the SMD controller. This has been made correct in the upcoming 3.2 release
and will increase yields of this drive on SGI systems (for those of you doing
your own integration :{) ).
Side note is that the software support for the Exabyte tape drive is in 3.1G
and in 3.2. The drive will not work terribly well prior to that unless it
is purchased from SGI. SGI provides an option tape (for those wanting to
run this device but not in a position to upgrade their software revision)
as part of the shipment from us.
Back to SMD; if you received SMD disk drives from SGI, they should not
exhibit such a problem. It was recently found, however, that some "quest-
ionable" units may have made it to customers due to some process problems.
If you are the recipient of such a unit, please call the SGI hotline to
arrange a patch tape.
markb
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Mark Bradley "Faster, faster, until the thrill of
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Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
Mountain View, CA ---Hunter S. Thompson