From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 6 20:52:34 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 000D314E93 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 20:52:32 -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 UAA02290; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 20:49:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199904070349.UAA02290@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Christopher Masto Cc: Mike Smith , FreeBSD hardware Users Subject: Re: ADR tape drives? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Apr 1999 21:09:38 EDT." <19990406210938.A606@netmonger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:49:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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. > > If they're willing to do that, then I'm willing to get the drive. They're actually keen to do that. > Unless you mean "don't buy the drive; you may be able to get a sample > unit", but I don't think that "right hands" was directed towards me. I was specifically referring to the SCSI ghods, yes. > I'm curious to know, though, what you've learned so far. We already > have an "ATAPI tape" driver, which presumably means QIC-157/SFF-8020i? > Is the OnStream drive not based on those standards, or do we just not > know yet? If nobody's tried it, who knows, maybe it'll Just Work. :-) The OnStream drive is supposedly a QIC-172(?) drive, but they are adding a "backwards compatability" mode to handle QIC-157 as well. Again, hopefully all this will be cleared up shortly. Thanks for your interest though - in fact, calling them about it is probably a good thing, as it lets them know there's interest out there too. -- \\ 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