From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 10 15:10:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (news.IAE.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E4FC14E5B for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:10:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@bowtie.nl) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.9.1/8.9.1) with IAEhv.nl id AAA15382; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:10:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bowtie.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA24666 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:06:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@bowtie.nl) Message-Id: <199911102306.AAA24666@bowtie.nl> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: onStream? In-reply-to: mjacob's message of Wed, 10 Nov 1999 10:52:47 -0800. Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:06:55 +0100 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message , Matthew Jacob writes: > >> > > > > >> > > > > Yes, it never came to much,. >> > > > >> > > > Does that mean there's no further development on the OnStream SCSI dri >ver >> > > > or that it's just slowed way down? >> > > >> > > Now on the bottom of my stack of priorities. Slowed way down as in >> > > 'glacial'. If I resume it at all, it will be after December. There are f >ar >> > > more important things to take care of for FreeBSD than OnStream. >> > >> > If someone else seriously wants to take this on, we do have more sample >> > hardware and documentation. >> >> I'll seriously ponder this. I have the need and no desire to do business >> with Exabyte again. > >It's not clear that OnStream is the answer here. I lost some of my >interest in supporting OnStream when they weren't particularly interested >in doing a changer. Not only is the amount of running around with this What do you mean by "doing a changer"? If you need anything, the guy I spoke to *may* be able to help. >device grief, but for only 25-50GB? It's true that it's a cheap drive, but >you know, therere are definitely other devices out there too. > They have 70GB in the picture and are working on bigger drives. The guy I spoke to also claimed that the drives are more reliable than dat. Regards, Marc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message