From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 10 9: 0:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (paprika.michvhf.com [209.57.60.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AE8715158 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:00:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vev@michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 2069 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Nov 1999 17:00:19 -0000 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:00:19 -0500 (EST) From: Vince Vielhaber To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: onStream? In-Reply-To: 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, 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 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