From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 22 11:13:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA16113 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 11:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA16102 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 11:12:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA21467 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Wed, 22 Oct 1997 20:12:41 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id XAA02980; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:15:20 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199710212215.XAA02980@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: DLT drives To: pnorton@ccnvhi.com (Paul Norton) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:15:19 +0100 (MET) Cc: tom@sdf.com, karl@Mcs.Net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199710211921.MAA00740@grumpy.ccnvhi.com> from "Paul Norton" at Oct 21, 97 12:21:32 pm X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Paul Norton wrote... > Not so. Some load their own version of the DLT firmware. Which are different OEM 'personalities' provided (in the end) by Quantum. You can as OEM ask for a specific feature. We do things like that at work (== DEC). But for VendorID and ProductID you can just use DLTtools (on the Quantum web site) > Wilko Bulte writes: > > All are built by Quantum, who bought the tape and disk business from > > Digital (DEC). > > > > So, Sun, SGI, DEC, etc all just rebadge them. _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ------------------ Support your local daemons: run FreeBSD Unix -----Yoda