From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 14 8:56:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cheddar.netmonger.net (cheddar.netmonger.net [209.54.21.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F65614FAF for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 08:56:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@cheddar.netmonger.net) Received: (from chris@localhost) by cheddar.netmonger.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05056; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:54:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19990814115411.A7341@netmonger.net> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:54:11 -0400 From: Christopher Masto To: mjacob@feral.com, Eric Lee Green Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE tape backup suggestions Mail-Followup-To: mjacob@feral.com, Eric Lee Green , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG References: <99081115532802.05193@ehome.local.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew Jacob on Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:56:56PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:56:56PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > Onstream are 30 GB plus. And there's an IDE version. > > > > > > > > Do Onstream devices work with FreeBSD? > > > > > > being worked on. me for scsi, sos for ide. > > > > Great! I knew that Linux drivers were forthcoming, but didn't know about the > > FreeBSD efforts! > > > > It sounds like you have it well in hand, but if there's anything we can do for > > you, feel free to drop me a line at eric@estinc.com and I'll forward it to > > someone who actually knows something about tape drive hardware (grin) (I'm the > > networking and systems guru here, tape drives are not my thing). > > > > Testing assistance will be helpful. I have one of these (the IDE version) and have been volunteering to help (testing and otherwise) for months and months, and have gotten nothing but brushed off. I would advise anyone considering one of these drives NOT to buy it in anticipation of a forthcoming driver.. with comments like "OnStream has asked me not to release the documents", I have serious doubts that we will ever see anything. Hopefully I'll be proven wrong. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message