From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Apr 7 10:24:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA20586 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 10:24:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA20522 Sun, 7 Apr 1996 10:24:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA05544; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 19:23:58 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA04098; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 19:23:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA00733; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 19:06:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604071706.TAA00733@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Tape drive FAQ To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 19:06:25 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604071621.JAA18505@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Apr 7, 96 09:21:57 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > sounds like a very good idea! > > please takea look at what i have in mind below and see if > it meshes with your ideas. > + * SCSI ... > + * QIC (Quarter-Inch Cartridge) I thought the asterisks could go away if the section becomes populated? > Archive Anaconda SCSI QIC-1350 tape drive > >

The Archive Anaconda SCSI tape drive does not work > with FreeBSD as shipped from the factory. Two kernel one-line > kernel patches are required. The drive delivers excellent The patches should be integrated. Make the hint ``temporary'', so people know that it's being worked on. > throughput, 370kB/sec with dump(8). Apart from this, go for it! I've got a submission from someone i've been helping to get his Exabyte 2501 (mini-QIC SCSI) drive running, and would commit this later on, as well as giving as much information about QIC and HP-DAT as i can scratch out of my mind. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)