From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 10 8: 5:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (news.IAE.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA7514BF1 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:05:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@bowtie.nl) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.9.1/8.9.1) with IAEhv.nl id RAA20377 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:05:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bowtie.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20250 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:00:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@bowtie.nl) Message-Id: <199911101600.RAA20250@bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: onStream? In-reply-to: olli's message of Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:01:28 +0100. <199911101401.PAA25067@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:00:24 +0100 From: Marc van Kempen 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. > 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. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message