27 Feb
1999
27 Feb
'99
11:04 p.m.
On Feb 28, 0:08, Zane H. Healy wrote:
that
>Chuck wrote:
>> On the tape drive in the BA123, it has a plain black front with a
button
>> and two LEDs, one orange and one green. TK50?
Where could I get media
for
>> it? What does it look like?
>
>Maybe an Exabyte 8200 drive (8 mm)? But those aren't standard equipment
on
the uVAX II,
and would require a SCSI controller.
Yipes, looking over at my _Exabyte 8500_ it has a little black button has a green LED above an orange one directly to the
right of the button.
I'd guess the drive in question is a 8500, all the 8200's I've seen have
beige faceplates. This makes sense seeing as how the MVII in question
has
SCSI Hard Drives.
Both of my ExaByte 8200's have black faceplates. However, the LEDs are
side-by-side about 1.25" from the left side of the drive, and the button is
on the right.
When the drive is powered up, what do the LEDs do? If you press the
button, does the front open to allow you to insert a tape, like a miniature
VHS machine? Or does it just have an open slot to slide a cartridge into?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
28 Feb
28 Feb
7:34 a.m.
Now we're getting somewhere!
At 01:04 PM 2/28/99 +0000, Pete Turnbull wrote:
Both of my ExaByte 8200's have black faceplates.
However, the LEDs are
side-by-side about 1.25" from the left side of the drive, and the button is
on the right.
This describes my drive as well, two LEDs side by side on the left, button
on the right.
When the drive is powered up, what do the LEDs do?
Stay on solid until the CPU counts down to 5 (could be 4) then they go off.
If you press the button, does the front open to allow
you to insert a tape,
like a miniature VHS machine?
Wouldn't say a VHS machine (I've got an 8mm cam corder) but certainly the
door opens and there is space in it to drop in the tape and then presumably
close the door.
Or does it just have an open slot to slide a
cartridge into?
Nope, the 4MM DAT drive on my Sun is like that. This is not one of those.
--Chuck
9:01 a.m.
Wouldn't say a VHS machine (I've got an 8mm cam
corder) but certainly the
door opens and there is space in it to drop in the tape and then presumably
close the door.
If you can fit a 8mm Camcorder tape in there it's a 8mm Exabyte drive.
People claim you can use the same tapes, I'm not one of them though, I use
Data grade tapes in my 8mm drives. If you take the drive you it will say
if it's a 8200 or a 8500. You've got a very nice sounding system there.
Zane
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1 Mar
1:58 a.m.
At 03:01 PM 2/28/99 -0800, Zane H. Healy wrote:
If you can fit a 8mm Camcorder tape in there it's a 8mm Exabyte drive.
People claim you can use the same tapes, I'm not one of them though, I use
Data grade tapes in my 8mm drives. If you take the drive you it will say
if it's a 8200 or a 8500. You've got a very nice sounding system there.
I use an 8500 for backups on my WinNT PC. On Exabyte's site, you can
get a DOS-based program that'll update the firmware, too.
- John
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