Paul Goyette wrote:
>
>Has anyone got an Exabyte 8mm tape drive working under -current?  I've 
>got one that panics as soon as the driver tries to execute 
>st_mode_select(). 
>
>I'm guessing that there's some special quirkdata that needs to be set for 
>this beast, (the Exabyte section of quirkdata in st.c is disabled by an 
>#if 0 ... #endif) but I don't know the details.
>
>Also, can anyone enlighten me on the differences between rst0, erst0, 
>nrst0, and enrst0?  Thanks.
>

What kind of tape drive?  I have an 8500 and an 8500c working, although
an IBM-modified 8505 doesn't work.  Of course, I haven't found an 
IBM-modified anything that works correctly on a non-IBM operating system,
which is a good reason to avoid them like the plague, as far as I'm 
concerned.

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