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A Compendium of Information to Connect EXABYTE Products to Various Operating Systems, Revision R, 7/20/94, This is the "official" source of EXABYTE knowledge. The SGI specific information is the distillation of much SGI moderated discussion on comp.sys.sgi back in 1993. ( Text , PostScript)

Original document in WordPerfect translated to RTF and then to HTML. The .ps file was unfortunately generated by MS/Word.

Installing EXABYTE drives on Irix 5.3 or 5.2

Irix 6.2 has appropriate support.

If you DO have SGI SurfZone access:

SGI's Patch for Irix 5.3

patchSG0001283: tape patch adding LEOT/PEOT handing and DLT2x00XT, 4x00 and 7x00 support

If you do NOT have SGI SurfZone access:

Exabyte Installation for SGI ( Text, RTF, Postscript )

Exabyte 8200, 8500, 8505, 8500XL Installation Document.

K8-TAPE Installation for SGI

Installation instructions from Kingston Technology that are derived from the document by EXABYTE For IRIX 5.2 MAKEDEV changes.

Alternate Installation Method

This is another example for installing an EXABYTE 8505. This document uses a different esthetic for conflating the names of the special files; compression is treated similarly to byte swaping or rewinding.

Example of Installation for DEC/OSF-1

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