Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 11:32:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> Cc: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>, Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net>, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OnStream SCSI drives Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905271132010.64523-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <199905271827.LAA15872@mina.sr.hp.com>
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> Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote: > > > > How are you thinking of handling this? I was thinking of a > > > userland driver program, but it sounds like you're considering kernel > > > driver foo. If you can, great. > > > > I haven't quite decided. I'm inclined to just special case it. There's > > some utility to doing an emulation layer somewhere, but that's probably > > overkill. Look- we don't want to *encourage* manufacturers to produce this > > kind of stuff- we'll make an exception in this case 'coz this looks like a > > *really* nice drive, but let's not make this the rule. > > True, but it sounds like we're talking about some pretty big driver > additions. Would this be something (optional?) added to st0, or would > it be a new driver like "os0"? We don't want to bloat the st0 driver > for those people who don't have OnStream drives. Added to st0. Maybe a config option. The amount of code probably isn't *that* big. > > If you can add support via a driver, great. That's certainly the > best way to go. > > > That would be helpful. What I'm also concerned about is media interchange > > with non-FreeBSD systems... Was it you who said you have a wad of NT > > workstations with these drives now? Making sure that the media can > > exchanged between systems is of crucial importance. > > Not me. While I do happen to have an NT box, it hasn't been turned > on in months, and I've been meaning to wipe it clean and install FreeBSD > on it. heh... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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