How well do HP and SUN workstations mix
Anthony A. Datri
hsi!stpstn!aad at uunet.uu.net
Sat Feb 11 09:55:48 AEST 1989
dfh at uncecs.edu (David Hinnant) writes:
>drive because (in my limited experience) HP TAPE DRIVES CANNOT READ TAPES
>CREATED ON ANY NORMAL MACHINE. Also I cannot read normal tapes in my HP
>machine. What's the scoop? Has anyone found an exception to this?
Their cartridges are pre-formatted, and I also believe they are written in
the opposite direction relative to things like Suns. You can use an
HP-type tape in a Sun or whatnot, but it'll never work in an HP again.
>Watch out for mail on the HP. Sucks.
One of my predecessors had the insight to replace the sendmail.cf file on
ours with one from a Sun. Didn't work at all. I've never been able to
figure out how to get the real one off the distribution tape.
Anthony A. Datri @SysAdmin(Stepstone Corporation) aad at stepstone.com stpstn!aad
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