From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 21 17:23:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA21009 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:23:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from stox.sa.enteract.com (stox.sa.enteract.com [207.229.132.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA21002 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:23:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@stox.sa.enteract.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.stox.sa.enteract.com [127.0.0.1]) by stox.sa.enteract.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA10158; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 19:22:43 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 19:22:40 -0500 (CDT) From: "Kenneth P. Stox" Reply-To: stox@enteract.com To: Joerg Wunsch cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DLT drives In-Reply-To: <19971022001854.DS19056@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, J Wunsch wrote: >> > So, Sun, SGI, DEC, etc all just rebadge them. > >> Not so. Some load their own version of the DLT firmware. > >Their own versions, or just their own vendor string only? I'd rather >assume the latter. The little brother of the NIH syndrome... Well, I can speak from experience that the DEC, Quantum, and SGI versions are different. Whether they are actually different, or that each vendor has chosen different loads from the same code base is a good question. There have been many different loads of firmware since Digital first introduced them, and Quantum took over. Of course, if one has access to them, one may load SGI firware on a Quantum drive, etc. -Ken Stox "If you work with Petabytes, does that make you a Petaphile ?" stox@enteract.com