From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 10 6: 1:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57590153D7 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 06:01:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25067 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:01:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:01:28 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199911101401.PAA25067@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: onStream? Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marc van Kempen wrote in list.freebsd-hardware: > I recently had a talk with someone working for onStream, and he got me > all excited about their product, it appears that under Windows you can > play dvd movies directly from tape if you manage to get them on the tape... > > He also told me that the drive has been developed by a group which used > to work for Philips on the dcc project, and when that was cancelled they > decided to use the technology they had developed for a tapedrive. That's interesting. I've been told that onStream was started by a group of people whoch worked for Exabyte previously. > However, it made me wonder about that status of the driver for it, > even more so since a Linux driver has been released, so that should > be able to serve as a reference. There's work in progress in the FreeBSD camp (both for the IDE and the SCSI versions), but so far nothing is available yet. (As always, it'll be available when it's ready...) The OnStream "SCSI" interface seems to suck pretty much. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message