From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 6 12:38: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from atlrel1.hp.com (atlrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462861572F for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:37:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@sr.hp.com) Received: from srmail.sr.hp.com (srmail.sr.hp.com [15.4.45.14]) by atlrel1.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id PAA10905; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 15:34:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com by srmail.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA091897299; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:34:59 -0700 Received: from localhost (darrylo@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by mina.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id MAA17791; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:34:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199904061934.MAA17791@mina.sr.hp.com> To: Christopher Masto Cc: FreeBSD hardware Users Subject: Re: ADR tape drives? Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:01:47 EDT." <19990406120147.A11041@netmonger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.1.1.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:34:56 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Christopher Masto wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:30:06PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I would hope that they work out of the box; I'm waiting to hear back > > from Onstream, who promised us evaluation units after Linuxworld. > > Has anyone been able to try one yet? I have an opportunity to > purchase the IDE model for $199.. I'm willing to help improve the > ATAPI tape driver to work with this drive, as long as it doesn't have > to be rewritten from scratch. I tried the SCSI version with 3.1-RELEASE. It's totally unusable "as is" (from what I've seen, it appears to only have a partial SCSI command implementation). Hopefully, the documentation will help. -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message