From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri May 7 8:43:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from Genesis.Denninger.Net (kdhome-2.pr.mcs.net [205.164.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C47C152B2 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 08:43:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karl@Genesis.Denninger.Net) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Genesis.Denninger.Net (8.9.3/8.8.2) id KAA00488; Fri, 7 May 1999 10:38:14 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19990507103814.B431@Denninger.Net> Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 10:38:14 -0500 From: Karl Denninger To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question - Onstream SCSI Streamer References: <19990507103151.A431@Denninger.Net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew Jacob on Fri, May 07, 1999 at 08:33:41AM -0700 Organization: Karl's Sushi and Packet Smashers X-Die-Spammers: Spammers will be LARTed and the remains fed to my cat Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 08:33:41AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > On Fri, 7 May 1999, Karl Denninger wrote: > > > Hmmm.... immediate rewinds? You mean implied rewinds on close, and no way > > to override them? That would limit you to one dump per tape, no? > > No, the 'immediate bit' in a rewind. Ah. Ok. That would, I think, be relatively quick to take care of, no? Software filemarks (the drive doesn't know how to write them?!) could be a bigger problem. > > I'm willing to take a look at this (since I have one) provided I can wrangle > > enough information to actually do so. > > > > I'm waiting for that information myself. Hmmm... that sounds like an indefinite timeframe. Does anyone have hacks to get even partial functionality? I'm flat-out of reasonable options with the DATs that I've been using (you know, the old "data grows" problem) and I've got the fun problem of either finding a solution to this via the ADR drives or returning it and going with DLT (about 4x the price). -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) Web: fathers.denninger.net I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message