From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 11 01:06:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA22039 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 01:06:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA21991 Sun, 11 Feb 1996 01:06:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA27911; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 19:36:08 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602110906.TAA27911@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Exabyte EXB-2501 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 19:36:07 +1030 (CST) Cc: dave@kachina.jetcafe.org, questions@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199602090739.IAA15328@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 9, 96 08:39:08 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > It's not yet supported. There's something that the EXB-2501 doesn't > really like in our tape driver, but i don't know yet _what_ it is. > I've got the Exabyte SCSI ref manual on behalf of another FreeBSD user > whose drive i wanna get humming. Just for reference, there are dozens of differnt firmware revisions for the EXB-250x series, which has caused a lot of the workstation vendors grief. (See comments on this in the SGI hardware FAQ and witness the Sun-exabyte FAQ.) What this means in practical terms is anyone's guess 8) > cheers, J"org -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[