From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Jul 11 11:50:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E63F37B403 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:50:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id UAA16061; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:50:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6BIiYl42640; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:44:34 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from j) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:44:34 +0200 From: Joerg Wunsch To: Matthew Jacob Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with SCSI Streamer Message-ID: <20010711204434.J1948@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <200107110654.f6B6sFp40894@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:46:18AM -0700 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Matthew Jacob wrote: > > We've been there before, Matt. /All/ current tape drives have to > > Yes, and I didn't agree with some of the conclusions. Yes, all > tape drives 'emulate'. The QIC manufacturers, from my experience, > don't do a good job of it. Which is contradictionary to my experience (and i use them a lot). Can you elaborate a bit why you think the QIC manufacturer do a bad job on it? Btw., there's currently probably only a single one left (Tandberg), and their SCSI implementations usually belong to the better ones. (Let's leave out stuff like Travan here.) > Let's cut this short. If you're willing to take over SA maintenance, > please say so. Well no, i don't wanna piss you off, nor do i have more time at hand than you. I'll be happy to eventually finish some long-standing floppy driver work... Some of the things there have been in my brain pipeline for years now. I once thought about re-implementing `programmable' tape devices, like they did exist pre-CAM, and are still reported as `available modes' in the mt stat output. This would allow people to pre-assign variable length for, say /dev/sa0.0, and fixed-length (for QIC-150 media) to /dev/sa0.1, and then use the appropriate subdevice. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message