From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Jun 5 14:32:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20839 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 14:32:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (ken@panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20780 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 14:32:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id PAA07961; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:32:06 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199806052132.PAA07961@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: SEEK command or locate tape position In-Reply-To: <19980605232223.55786@hoop.student.tue.nl> from Marijn Meijles at "Jun 5, 98 11:22:23 pm" To: marijn@stack.nl Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:32:05 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marijn Meijles wrote... > > > > Hans Huebner is working on putting fast locate > > and read position support into the CAM tape driver. Once he finishes that > > work, it will be available in CAM. The CAM snapshots are released for both > > current and stable, so you'll be able to run them on your system. > I looked at it, but I have a Tekram DC390 SCSI host which isn't supported. > Is it really hard to 'port' a driver from the current stable tree? I wouldn't recommend trying it unless you've had prior experience writing drivers. It isn't exactly a trivial task. I take it your card is one of the ones with the AMD 53c974 chip on board? From looking at Tekram's web page, it looks like some of their DC390 series boards are based on NCR/Symbios chips. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message