From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 6 17:10:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5862915453 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 17:10:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA01154; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 17:08:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199904070008.RAA01154@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Christopher Masto Cc: FreeBSD hardware Users Subject: Re: ADR tape drives? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:01:47 EDT." <19990406120147.A11041@netmonger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 17:08:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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'm about to e-mail OnStream for as much technical info as they can > supply. Please don't do this; we're already talking with Onstream, and they are working to produce a technical reference manual that they can release without NDA etc. They expect to be another week or two finishing that off, at which time we hope to have some sample units in the right hands as well. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message