Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:00:19 -0500 (EST) From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: onStream? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911101158370.1668-100000@paprika.michvhf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911100851160.11768-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > 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. Their website says they were spun off from Phillips. > > > 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,. Does that mean there's no further development on the OnStream SCSI driver or that it's just slowed way down? Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include <std/disclaimers.h> Have you seen http://www.pop4.net? Online Campground Directory http://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstore http://www.cloudninegifts.com ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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