AT&T SysV Rel 4.0 - SCSI Complaints

[Larry Snyder]

brando at uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Brandon Brown) writes:

>Well at a site I do some consulting for, we were really pissed at this 
>also. It seems that AT&T looks for the SCSI ident string on the drive, and
>that is how it determines whether or not it is a supported device. This also
>includes all SCSI tape drives too.  As for the fix, you might as well forget
>it. It was obviously hardcoded so f**king AT&T could sell more of their own
>equipment.

we had the same problem originally with Intel SVR4 2.0

now with Dell SVR4 we haven't had this problem --

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