From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 21 23:14:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA08898 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:14:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA08888 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:14:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA26733 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 08:14:29 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id HAA20644; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 07:59:19 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971022075919.IP16123@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 07:59:19 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DLT drives References: <19971022001854.DS19056@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Kenneth P. Stox on Oct 21, 1997 19:22:40 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Kenneth P. Stox wrote: > >> Not so. Some load their own version of the DLT firmware. > > > >Their own versions, or just their own vendor string only? > Well, I can speak from experience that the DEC, Quantum, and SGI > versions are different. Again, in what respect are they different? If it's just the vendor string, you can certainly ignore it. I would find it hard that they e.g. would implement all their different set of mode pages. -- 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. ;-)