From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 22 00:02:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA11459 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:02:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (mail.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA11442 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:02:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ernie!bert.kts.org!hm@ppp.net) Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0xNunr-0032TrC; Wed, 22 Oct 97 08:02 MET Received: from bert.kts.org(really [194.55.156.2]) by ernie.kts.org via sendmail with smtp id for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 08:44:25 +0200 (MET DST) (Smail-3.2.0.91 1997-Jan-14 #2 built 1997-Feb-8) Received: by bert.kts.org via sendmail with stdio id for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 08:36:40 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.94 1997-Apr-22 #7 built 1997-Jul-4) Message-Id: From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: DLT drives In-Reply-To: <19971022001854.DS19056@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Oct 22, 97 00:18:54 am" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 08:36:40 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Kitchen Table Systems Reply-To: hm@kts.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > > > 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. Their own versions. HP has a DLT (version) which can be run in 7980 mode (which is an HP reel to reel tape) and i doubt this is possible with the standard firmware. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe "Those who can, do. Those who can't, talk. And those who can't talk, talk about talking." (B. Shaw)