Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 00:48:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: owensc@enc.edu (Charles Owens) Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony AIT tape drive support Message-ID: <199806182248.AAA05790@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980618165206.2301M-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu> from Charles Owens at "Jun 18, 98 05:07:32 pm"
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As Charles Owens wrote... > Has anyone here played with one of these drives with FreeBSD? These Not yet, but I could borrow one from my boss and try it. Digital ^H^H^H^H^H Compaq resells them under the Storageworks brand. > My understanding is that when used with a plain, vanilla SCSI tape driver > the AIT unit behaves just like a regular 8-millimeter drive (just with > higher capacity and better throughput perhaps). Access to the other AIT > nifty features (fast access times, no need to rewind prior to tape > removal, etc.) requires a driver that utilizes this extended SCSI command > set. > > Am I right here? Any further comments? Has anyone been thinking about I think so. The current Digital operating systems don't make use (yet?) of the chip in the cassette. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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