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Date:      Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:16:07 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Travan-20 tape streamer: unit not ready 
Message-ID:  <199903261916.LAA00626@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:23:10 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903251922160.8651-100000@feral-gw> 

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> 
> Very interesting. Usually things break if the Immediate bit is *set*.
> 
> I wouldn't expect Mode Sense(10) to be set- and it's quite conceivable
> that a SCSI-1 Mode Sense (6) might work. What's the ANSI conformance level
> from the Inquiry data again?

I just got off the phone with Jim Jonez at Onstream about the Onstream 
drive; they are working as we speak on pruning their sensitive 
intellectual property out of their hardware manual so they can make it 
available.

I also took the opportunity to make the point that tape drives are meant
to behave like tape drives, ie. that we shouldn't need their damn manual
to talk to the drive in the first place.

Overall things were pretty positive; I hope to hear from him later 
again today, and it sounds like we should be able to put documentation 
in various peoples' hands by the end of next week.  I'll also try to 
arrange a backchannel for us to flame their developers directly.

If anyone has any contacts with HP that would allow us to do similar 
things with their tape people, that'd be useful.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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