From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 20 11:59:11 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA12390 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 11:59:11 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA12384 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 11:59:07 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA05863; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 20:57:51 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA14814; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 20:57:50 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA01049; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 19:38:44 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508201738.TAA01049@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: known rogue? To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 19:38:43 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: gryphon@healer.com Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508201718.MAA01441@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> from "John Fieber" at Aug 20, 95 12:18:12 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 880 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As John Fieber wrote: > > > st0: Archive Viper 150 is a known rogue > It means that FreeBSD knows about the quirks of this tape drive > and how to work around them. I've never actually researched what > the quirks are, but I can tell you that the tape drive in > question works fine. It's actually perhaps one of the best-supported drives... The quirks are things like tape drives that do not like some mode pages, or require the switch to a certain mode page before a particular operation is started etc. What problems do you have with the Viper? I've been using it for years without trouble (and i've only been replacing it since somebody else couldn't use the Tandberg i'm using now, but had a better chance on the Archive). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)