From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 10 8:51:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92921537C for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:51:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA13866 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:51:34 -0800 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:51:34 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: onStream? In-Reply-To: <199911101401.PAA25067@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Marc van Kempen wrote in list.freebsd-hardware: > > I recently had a talk with someone working for onStream, and he got me > > all excited about their product, it appears that under Windows you can > > play dvd movies directly from tape if you manage to get them on the tape... > > > > He also told me that the drive has been developed by a group which used > > to work for Philips on the dcc project, and when that was cancelled they > > decided to use the technology they had developed for a tapedrive. > > That's interesting. I've been told that onStream was started > by a group of people whoch worked for Exabyte previously. > > > However, it made me wonder about that status of the driver for it, > > even more so since a Linux driver has been released, so that should > > be able to serve as a reference. > > There's work in progress in the FreeBSD camp (both for the IDE > and the SCSI versions), but so far nothing is available yet. > (As always, it'll be available when it's ready...) > The OnStream "SCSI" interface seems to suck pretty much. Yes, it never came to much,. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message