8mm 2.3 GB Video Backup Device Query

[Dave Forslund]

Sun-Spots-Request at Rice.edu (William LeFebvre):
> We're evaluating a few Exabyte-style tape drives....
> My question:  anybody know under why I should pay over $1,000 more for a
> custom driver?

Why buy a device driver?  We just hung our exabyte drive on a Sun3 SCSI
port (Sun si driver OS4.0) and it works just like a 1/4" tape and dumps at
the rate of 800Mbytes/hour.

Dave Forslund
Los Alamos National Laboratory