From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Feb 17 0:37:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from astralblue.com (adsl-209-76-108-39.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [209.76.108.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC45E37B662 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:37:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@astralblue.com) Received: from localhost (ab@localhost) by astralblue.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA05383; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:37:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@astralblue.com) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:37:42 -0800 (PST) From: "Eugene M. Kim" To: Bharat Mediratta Cc: FreeBSD SCSI Mailing List Subject: Re: OnStream 30Gb SCSI drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Actually I was thinking of doing this myself (got hands on all necessary documents and studied them; kudos to OnStream for making the programming information readily available on the website). The problem is that the ADR standard is not a superset of the standard for SCSI sequential access device. It uses the almost same command set, but the way they execute those commands is much different from the standard SCSI way. Given this, I think the best way to support this device is probably some kind of port that uses passthrough interface (much in the same way cdrecord handles CD-Rs). If we can make the port behave like rmt(8), it could be easily integrated into the preexisting backup/restore system. BTW, I have a SC50 drive to play around with. Thanks, Eugene On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Bharat Mediratta wrote: | | Hi, guys. It's time to revisit the "are there drivers for the | OnStream SCSI drives?" question again. I checked the geocrawler | and deja websites (since FreeBSD's search is still down) and | didn't see any posts more recent than 8/99. Is anybody still | working on this? I'm offering my services in both the driver | development and testing arenas, let me know. | | Thanks, | -Bharat | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message | -- Eugene M. Kim "Is your music unpopular? Make it popular; make music which people like, or make people who like your music." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message