From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed May 12 18: 1:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from Genesis.Denninger.Net (kdhome-2.pr.mcs.net [205.164.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CC5714CFD for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 18:01:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karl@Genesis.Denninger.Net) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Genesis.Denninger.Net (8.9.3/8.8.2) id TAA20684; Wed, 12 May 1999 19:59:07 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19990512195907.A20680@Denninger.Net> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:59:07 -0500 From: Karl Denninger To: Darryl Okahata Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question - Onstream SCSI Streamer References: <19990512182841.A20409@Denninger.Net> <199905122338.QAA14698@mina.sr.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199905122338.QAA14698@mina.sr.hp.com>; from Darryl Okahata on Wed, May 12, 1999 at 04:38:19PM -0700 Organization: Karl's Sushi and Packet Smashers X-Die-Spammers: Spammers will be LARTed and the remains fed to my cat Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 04:38:19PM -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Karl Denninger wrote: > > > Well, for the kinds of use to which we'd put the device (ie: streaming > > tape) a 32k block size isn't horrid. I can see where if you tried to use > > it as a random-access replacement (ie: to write "files" to) you'd be rather > > unhappy with the wastage that this would cause, but for streaming > > applications I doubt it hurts much. > > True. I was just mentioning that as an example of how "different" > the OnStream drive is from traditional SCSI tape drives. > > > I'll try hardcoding THAT as a quirk and see if the drive decides it would > > like to at least get past the open and actually perform I/O :-) > > Heh. I really, really hope it works, but I'll bet that there are > enough other quirks that it won't. ;-( Well, this IS the fun of doing stuff like this without a low-level hardware MANUAL! :-) -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) Web: fathers.denninger.net I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message