From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 28 14:57: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 570E614C1D for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 14:56:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA03145; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 14:51:58 -0700 Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 14:51:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Darryl Okahata Cc: searle@longacre.demon.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OnStream In-Reply-To: <199908282142.OAA17051@mina.sr.hp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Are the OnStream SC30 and SC50 (SCSI tape drives) > > supported? Can they be used reliably and reasonably > > fast? AFAIK they need special support, so what > > OS version do I need to run them? > > They're not supported, yet. > > People are supposedly working on getting them working, but it's > unclear as to when the support will materialize. If I had to take a > wild guess, I'd say that some kind of support will exist by December or > so, and possibly earlier. I'm the putz in question. It's been hard for me to find the joining of time to do this and a stable -current for my setups. > > [ This is not an official statement -- or even an unofficial one. I've > got very little contact with the people working on the drivers, but I, > too, need some kind of SCSI OnStream support. I can wait until the > end of the year or so; if something doesn't happen by then, I may take > a stab at some kind of SC30 (but not SC50) support. Or, I may not, > depending on how much time I have. ] > > -- > Darryl Okahata > darrylo@sr.hp.com > > DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not > constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the > little green men that have been following him all day. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message