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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:06:55 +0100
From:      Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: onStream? 
Message-ID:  <199911102306.AAA24666@bowtie.nl>
In-Reply-To: mjacob's message of Wed, 10 Nov 1999 10:52:47 -0800. <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911101050530.11884-100000@semuta.feral.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911101050530.11884-100000@semuta.feral.com>, Matthew
 Jacob writes:
>
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > Yes, it never came to much,.
>> > > > 
>> > > > Does that mean there's no further development on the OnStream SCSI dri
>ver
>> > > > or that it's just slowed way down?
>> > > 
>> > > Now on the bottom of my stack of priorities. Slowed way down as in
>> > > 'glacial'. If I resume it at all, it will be after December. There are f
>ar
>> > > more important things to take care of for FreeBSD than OnStream.
>> > 
>> > If someone else seriously wants to take this on, we do have more sample 
>> > hardware and documentation.
>> 
>> I'll seriously ponder this.  I have the need and no desire to do business
>> with Exabyte again.
>
>It's not clear that OnStream is the answer here. I lost some of my
>interest in supporting OnStream when they weren't particularly interested
>in doing a changer. Not only is the amount of running around with this

What do you mean by "doing a changer"? If you need anything, the guy I spoke
to *may* be able to help.

>device grief, but for only 25-50GB? It's true that it's a cheap drive, but
>you know, therere are definitely other devices out there too.
>
They have 70GB in the picture and are working on bigger drives.

The guy I spoke to also claimed that the drives are more reliable than
dat.

Regards,
Marc.


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