Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 14:38:57 GMT From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AIWA DDS-2 drives? Message-ID: <382d76d8.434994158@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <MAIL199911112309.QAA30105@panzer.kdm.org> References: <199911112230.QAA28949@mail.HiWAAY.net> <MAIL199911112309.QAA30105@panzer.kdm.org>
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On 11 Nov 1999 18:09:47 -0500, ken@plutotech.com ("Kenneth D. Merry")
wrote:
>David Kelly wrote...
>> Have found some Aiwa GD-80001HC drives for cheap and wondered if anyone
>> has used one under FreeBSD yet? `grep -i aiwa /usr/src/cam` didn't turn
>> up anything. So presumably if something is known about this model its
>> not bad but that doesn't say if anything good is known either.
>
>From the web page (http://www.aiwa.com/csd/product/dds2mn.htm), it looks
>like just another DDS-2 drive.
>
>My guess is that they probably just OEM someone else's drive mechanism, but
>who knows. It should function fine, but of course you never know until
>someone tries it.
I dont know about the model above, but the one I got at onsale.com seems to
work OK...
sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
sa0: <AIWA GD-8000 0119> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 7)
DUMP: finished in 48 seconds, throughput 434 KBytes/sec
If you ever need NT drivers, you can get them from the Japanese version of
the site.
---MikeOn 11 Nov 1999 18:09:47 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.scsi
you wrote:
>David Kelly wrote...
>> Have found some Aiwa GD-80001HC drives for cheap and wondered if anyone
>> has used one under FreeBSD yet? `grep -i aiwa /usr/src/cam` didn't turn
>> up anything. So presumably if something is known about this model its
>> not bad but that doesn't say if anything good is known either.
>
>From the web page (http://www.aiwa.com/csd/product/dds2mn.htm), it looks
>like just another DDS-2 drive.
>
>My guess is that they probably just OEM someone else's drive mechanism, but
>who knows. It should function fine, but of course you never know until
>someone tries it.
>
>Ken
>--
>Kenneth Merry
>ken@plutotech.com
>
>
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