From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed May 12 16:38:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B9E815E04 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 16:38:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@sr.hp.com) Received: from srmail.sr.hp.com (srmail.sr.hp.com [15.4.45.14]) by palrel3.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id QAA18963; Wed, 12 May 1999 16:38:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com by srmail.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA099012300; Wed, 12 May 1999 16:38:20 -0700 Received: from localhost (darrylo@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by mina.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id QAA14698; Wed, 12 May 1999 16:38:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905122338.QAA14698@mina.sr.hp.com> To: Karl Denninger Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question - Onstream SCSI Streamer Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 May 1999 18:28:41 CDT." <19990512182841.A20409@Denninger.Net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.1.1.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:38:19 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Karl Denninger wrote: > Well, for the kinds of use to which we'd put the device (ie: streaming > tape) a 32k block size isn't horrid. I can see where if you tried to use > it as a random-access replacement (ie: to write "files" to) you'd be rather > unhappy with the wastage that this would cause, but for streaming > applications I doubt it hurts much. True. I was just mentioning that as an example of how "different" the OnStream drive is from traditional SCSI tape drives. > I'll try hardcoding THAT as a quirk and see if the drive decides it would > like to at least get past the open and actually perform I/O :-) Heh. I really, really hope it works, but I'll bet that there are enough other quirks that it won't. ;-( -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message