Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:25:27 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> To: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question - Onstream SCSI Streamer Message-ID: <199905122325.QAA14502@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 May 1999 00:19:36 CDT." <19990508001936.A597@Denninger.Net>
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Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> wrote:
> Well, I added a quirk entry for the OnStream (and support for "rewind
> immediate" in general) to the SA driver.
>
> All that did for me is discover that the Onstream also refuses to respond to
> an inquiry for block limits (!)
>
> I'm going to try a few other things here before giving up on this quest and
> waiting for someone to get real documentation, but I'm not encouraged by
> what I'm seeing so far.
It also appears that the drive only supports 32KB sectors. ;-(
See the appended message.
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From: Kurt Godwin <kurtgo@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: More OnStream commentary (followup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 19:03:54 GMT
Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
In article <3735f1e6.17806602@basement>,
please@see.sig (SteveR) wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:26:51 GMT, Kurt Godwin <kurtgo@my-dejanews.com>
> wrote:
> >The REAL fix from Microsoft will be available soon (at
> >http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q224/0/73.asp)
> >Keep checking this url, it should be up soon.
>
> Yup. It's there. Ya gotta love Microsoft. They admittedly screw up
> then put all kinds of hoops out for users to jump through (call
> Microsoft paid support line to get access to the fix...) when a simple
> download would have done the job far more directly. Arrgh. Maybe
> whoever gets to this first can post it in
> alt.binaries.shareware.ibm.pc, or somewhere equally accessible.
>
> Hey Kurt, when are we going to get the other issues with Echo
> addressed? You know, like large block sizes, multi-tape backups, and
> optional installation of Echo "features"?
> SteveR
> m.a.i.l.t.o.:
> s.r.r.2 a.t r.c.n d.o.t c.o.m
>
The next version of Echo software is scheduled for June (probably end
of June).
The OnStream drive supports only 32K sectors. We have added code to
compress files within sectors (this changes the backup format), and
allows better use of the tape. This fix will only work with backups,
as copying files to the tape will not change. I should mention that
this "limitation" is a physical limitation with the drive, and not
clustering issue. Our backup product creates files on the tape (or
other media)
Multi-tape backups (or tape linking) will be in this version as well
(end of june)
As far as "optional" installation of features, I don't know what you
mean. The only "optional" component of our system is the backup engine
(pconfig.exe), and if you don't want to use it, just don't run it.
The rest of the product is not divisible. If you don't want to use our
backup product, the tape drive letter ( usually T: )is there for you
to use however you wish. Microsoft Backup will work with it as well as
any other program that creates files.
What is it that you don't want to install?
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