From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 10 22:23:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA24853 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 22:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA24826; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 22:23:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA05122; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 07:21:55 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA05761; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 07:21:55 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id HAA08925; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 07:18:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606110518.HAA08925@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: AHA 6360 with Tanberg 4220 tape? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 07:18:07 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: phk@freebsd.org, rav@xinside.com (Richard Van Dyke) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <31BCCC0F.167EB0E7@xinside.com> from Richard Van Dyke at "Jun 10, 96 07:29:51 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Richard Van Dyke wrote: > Is it really stupid to even consider using a tape drive with a 6360? I'm > assuming the answer is, "it will just take a little longer..". No, it's only stupid to use anything with the current aic6360 driver. <:) I've had my own personal saga with it once as well, and this was at FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 time. Nothings seems to have happened to this driver meanwhile, except the ``routine tasks'' like devfs integration. You call it ``orphaned''? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)