From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu May 27 11:27:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E5C6155EF for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 11:27:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@sr.hp.com) Received: from srmail.sr.hp.com (srmail.sr.hp.com [15.4.45.14]) by palrel3.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id LAA18212; Thu, 27 May 1999 11:27:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com by srmail.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA197079628; Thu, 27 May 1999 11:27:08 -0700 Received: from localhost (darrylo@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by mina.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id LAA15872; Thu, 27 May 1999 11:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905271827.LAA15872@mina.sr.hp.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Dirk-Willem van Gulik , Karl Denninger , freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OnStream SCSI drives Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 May 1999 11:13:29 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.1.1.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 11:27:07 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Jacob 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 DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message