Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 11:27:07 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>, Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net>, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OnStream SCSI drives Message-ID: <199905271827.LAA15872@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 May 1999 11:13:29 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905271109480.64523-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:
> > How are you thinking of handling this? I was thinking of a
> > userland driver program, but it sounds like you're considering kernel
> > driver foo. If you can, great.
>
> I haven't quite decided. I'm inclined to just special case it. There's
> some utility to doing an emulation layer somewhere, but that's probably
> overkill. Look- we don't want to *encourage* manufacturers to produce this
> kind of stuff- we'll make an exception in this case 'coz this looks like a
> *really* nice drive, but let's not make this the rule.
True, but it sounds like we're talking about some pretty big driver
additions. Would this be something (optional?) added to st0, or would
it be a new driver like "os0"? We don't want to bloat the st0 driver
for those people who don't have OnStream drives.
If you can add support via a driver, great. That's certainly the
best way to go.
> That would be helpful. What I'm also concerned about is media interchange
> with non-FreeBSD systems... Was it you who said you have a wad of NT
> workstations with these drives now? Making sure that the media can
> exchanged between systems is of crucial importance.
Not me. While I do happen to have an NT box, it hasn't been turned
on in months, and I've been meaning to wipe it clean and install FreeBSD
on it.
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@sr.hp.com
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