Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:56:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: At what point do I open a PR? Message-ID: <200108282156.f7SLuaC58330@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <005701c13006$04674ba0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> "from Kory Hamzeh at Aug 28, 2001 02:11:34 pm"
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It seems Kory Hamzeh wrote: > > I've been having problems with getting an OnStream DI-30 Tape Drive working > on 4.3-RELEASE. The driver claims that this tape drive is supported. I've > posted help request with the problem description to both freebsd-questions > and freebsd-hardware and have received no replies. I've also searched the > archives. Hmm, I wrote the partial driver, so I'll tune in here... The Onstream device is an exceptionally ugly beast to handle,, to put it bluntly its firmware is so badly designed it needs all kinds of trickery in the driver to make it work (I invented the term "wintape" for those devices :) ), and even then the whole thing is so fragile II wouldn't trust it with my backup data.. Later Onstream went for chapter 11, I dunno what came out of that.. > Do I open a PR with send-pr now? Well, it wont help much I'm afraid, getting support for this device into the atapi tape driver will not be easy as I'm going to fight it vigorously as the maintainer :) However the support we have works, just keep in mind that the onstream has no notion of filemarks, which seems to be your problem, and it requires error free media, since the drive has no notion of error handling as well... All in all, it makes a very good booksupport item on your shelf :| -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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