Re: Tape question ...

[Garry Optland <garry @ pp . nsw . gov . au>]

On Mon, 6 May 1996, Ing. Rosa Isela Gonzalez Alvarez. wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>         I don't know if this is the correct place to make this question: I
> want to connect an EXABYTE EXB-2501T tape unit (it's an SCSI device) to a
> DEC 3000 (Digital) Alpha OSF/1. I'm having some problems to make it
> readable. Any suggestions are appreciated.
> 
Hi Rosa,

The correct place for OSF/1 questions is the Alpha-OSF-Managers mailing
list. If you give enough detail about your problem, and show that you have
read the manual pages, then people on that list are very willing to help. 

I have attached information describing the charter and rules of the 
Alpha-OSF-Managers list so you, (or anyone else), can subscribe to 
it if they want to. The attached information was written by the list 
maintainer, Dave Sill.

Regards,
	 Garry.

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