From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 22 11:52:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA18348 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 11:52:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA18322 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 11:52:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA23544 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Wed, 22 Oct 1997 20:52:01 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id UAA02767; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 20:18:27 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199710221918.UAA02767@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: DLT drives To: hm@kts.org Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 20:18:27 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Hellmuth Michaelis" at Oct 22, 97 08:36:40 am X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] 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 As Hellmuth Michaelis wrote... > 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. Check out http://www.quantum.com There are something like 5 or so firmware personalities, e.g. also one that pretends to be an Exabyte. Wilko _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ------------------ Support your local daemons: run FreeBSD Unix -----Yoda