From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri May 17 07:51:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA21954 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 07:51:13 -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 HAA21943 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 07:51:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA28306 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 16:51:02 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA00460 for scsi@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 May 1996 16:51:02 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id PAA06138 for scsi@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 May 1996 15:44:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605171344.PAA06138@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Exabyte Tape Drive Firmware To: scsi@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 15:44:28 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199605170307.UAA07489@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "May 16, 96 08:07:41 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] 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 Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > Picking the WRITE BUFFER route would require them to support N operating > systems and M controllers, ... Everything i've seen so far didn't do this. They didn't support any operating systems, i.e. the software was only able to be launched from The Unintelligent Program Loader, and i think they only supported ASPI as the interface. At least Tandberg does it this way. -- 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. ;-)