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On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:57:04 GMT, in comp.os.plan9

James G. Stallings II wrote:

>
>Greetings, 9fans!
>
>Here's some more rambling about what I'm doing with plan 9.  Feel free
>to respond as you see fit. All suggestions welcome.
>
>I just got some more old hardware, this time a 100mhz dx4 486. It's
>quite a bit better than the dx2 66 I was using. Unfortunately I don't
>have a working system assembled at the moment.
>
>Some stuff that came with it: a pertec 120mb "floppy" tape drive; and a
>600+mb micropolis scsi II drive. The scsi host adapter is a DTC 3280as.
>Is there any possibility that this junk is supported? I'm thinking slow
>storage behind a file server; active storage<-scsi disk<-pertec tape.
>Not exactly high performance stuff, but it's right here under my hands.

Isthis the SCSI adapter?
http://www.datatechnology.com/support/guides/3x80/3x80as2.shtml
Does it have a chipset on it named Symbios 53C810 or NCR 53C810?

I doubt if the floppy tape device is supported.


>I'm starting to get serious enough about this to think in terms of
>better hardware; what direction should I be taking in terms of
>fileserver storage? Obviously I'm not about to install a big CD jukebox
>to backend the fileserver ;^)

I would think of a SCSI tape device or CD-RW using the scuzz prog
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/scuzz

Hope this helps

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