From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 16 17:43:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from server02.belenus.com (ns2.belenus.com [131.99.17.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984B337B422 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:43:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by server02.belenus.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 02:43:40 +0200 Message-ID: From: "Schmalzbauer, Harald" To: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Onstream ADR support? Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 02:43:34 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Brandon D. Valentine" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:Pine.BSF.4.21.0009161838380.61197-100000@turtle.looksharp.net... > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > > >In message <8q091r$1mum$1@ganerc.mips.inka.de> Christian Weisgerber writes: > >: out of the box without any need for special driver support. So an > >: ADR50 *should* work under FreeBSD, too. > > > >Ah. I was tramatized by their older version.... > > Yeah, I think when they reliazed what a PITA it was going to be to write > so many different drivers they saw the light that is standards. At the > time we last bought a SCSI tape drive the OnStream stuff was still non > standard so we went with AIT from Sony. I'm now looking at OnStream ADR > for home use. If I get a drive, I'll be sure to report it's operability > with FreeBSD. I've just orderd three of them and Onstrem gives the guarantee that the ADR50 works with EST's BRU. I'll check out and give a short reply next week. I think the technic sounds good and since Onstream is a daughter of Philips, who has experience in tape drives with BetacamSP and DigitalBetacam (both professional highend TV standard) I give it a chance. The price is very sensible! Thanks all, Harry > Brandon D. Valentine > -- > bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu > "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message