From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Apr 7 17:20:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA13739 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 17:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA13721 Sun, 7 Apr 1996 17:20:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id CAA11543; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 02:20:45 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA09514; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 02:20:45 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id CAA01251; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 02:04:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604080004.CAA01251@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Archive Anaconda Tape drive 1.35GB && Adaptec 1542CF To: andrew@whine.com (Andrew Herdman) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 02:04:53 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Andrew Herdman" at Apr 7, 96 01:12:45 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andrew Herdman wrote: > Sounds like a great idea. I've got an Archive Python here, bought it > used, and don't even know what the lights mean, let alone the internal > dip switches, and that strange jack in the back. In other words, sure > the drive works fine, but I doubt i'm using it properly. If it works, don't complain. :) Should you find something unusal about it (works only when turned for 45 degrees, works best between 0300 and 0600 o'clock local time, etc. :-), simply submit a FAQ entry for it later. I wouldn't like to collect the data sheets for 3 dozen different (out of the box working) drives there, only the ``known rogues''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)