From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 16 11:41:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7ED514D9C for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 11:41:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA08045; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 11:41:14 -0800 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 11:41:13 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Greg Lehey Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 SCSI Tape Driver- Okay, Okay, you win.... In-Reply-To: <19991116143713.13254@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 16 November 1999 at 8:04:05 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > Too many people have objected. I didn't make my case clearly enough, > > but because enough people of have raised issues, the default won't > > be changed. > > I think this is the correct decision in the short term. In the longer > term, we should continue to discuss the matter. Yes, well, I was driven by the coming of 4.0.... My *original* plans for 4.0 was to do a complete rewrite of the tape driver using the HP sponsored TAPEALERT initiative, but I've had only a fraction of the time available. So, what with fixing some bugs, trying to make sure that subdevices come back with latchable settings, that'll probably be it for tape in 4.0. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message