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Date:      Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:00:24 +0100
From:      Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>
To:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: onStream? 
Message-ID:  <199911101600.RAA20250@bowtie.nl>
In-Reply-To: olli's message of Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:01:28 %2B0100. <199911101401.PAA25067@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> 

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> 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.
> 
It may be that they are also in there somewhere, but the Philips part is
definitely present. 

>  > 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...)
I know, it just been almost two months since that last messages, so I'm
just pinging again.

Regards,
Marc.

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