From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Aug 25 0:45:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0331837B423 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:45:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA11405; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:45:39 -0700 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:45:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Olivier Nicole Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tandberg SLR 100 In-Reply-To: <200008250559.MAA07000@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Olivier Nicole wrote: > >Is this SLR a QIC device? > > Yes it is, well, it is a quater inch cartridge, but it is not a QIC > standard yet (?) > > >Typically, QIC type tapes are problematic. I bought an SLR-5 to test with > >FreeBSD last year- that seems to work. The current quirk table entry should > >match correctly for it. > > Any idea where/what is this table for FreeBSD 3.5? Same table. EOT model stuff is not there- that was a 4.0 introduction. > > >The QIC issues usually are: need 1 filemark only (quirks can handle this, also > >doing a 'mt seteotmodel'- see mt(1)- can make this explicit), usually need to > >be in fixed block mode (at 1024 byte blocks). > > I have seen that discussion. > > >So- the answer is "I haven't tried it. Should work." Hopefully one of the > >folks who use QICs more than I do can chime in. I'd recommend at least 4.0. > > Any one that can tell me it works (given this and that configuration) > or it definitely does not work? > > I could go for DLT, but I like QIC like technology better :) I'll have to admit I'm getting further and further behind the curve on what's current. I don't work for a company that buys tape toys for me. There are a lot of issues for tapes that are forever, but what's actually working well this year is something I can only find out about if spend my own money. This year, I bought a SCSI analyzer instead (Ancot Ultra3. 5k$USD! Rah! Rah!). -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message