From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Jun 18 20:36:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11116 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 20:36:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA11080 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 20:36:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA17382 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Fri, 19 Jun 1998 04:55:21 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id AAA05790; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 00:48:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199806182248.AAA05790@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Sony AIT tape drive support In-Reply-To: from Charles Owens at "Jun 18, 98 05:07:32 pm" To: owensc@enc.edu (Charles Owens) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 00:48:11 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Charles Owens wrote... > Has anyone here played with one of these drives with FreeBSD? These Not yet, but I could borrow one from my boss and try it. Digital ^H^H^H^H^H Compaq resells them under the Storageworks brand. > My understanding is that when used with a plain, vanilla SCSI tape driver > the AIT unit behaves just like a regular 8-millimeter drive (just with > higher capacity and better throughput perhaps). Access to the other AIT > nifty features (fast access times, no need to rewind prior to tape > removal, etc.) requires a driver that utilizes this extended SCSI command > set. > > Am I right here? Any further comments? Has anyone been thinking about I think so. The current Digital operating systems don't make use (yet?) of the chip in the cassette. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message