Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:44:34 +0200 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with SCSI Streamer Message-ID: <20010711204434.J1948@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107111044250.5766-100000@beppo>; from mjacob@feral.com on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:46:18AM -0700 References: <200107110654.f6B6sFp40894@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107111044250.5766-100000@beppo>
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As Matthew Jacob wrote: > > We've been there before, Matt. /All/ current tape drives have to > > Yes, and I didn't agree with some of the conclusions. Yes, all > tape drives 'emulate'. The QIC manufacturers, from my experience, > don't do a good job of it. Which is contradictionary to my experience (and i use them a lot). Can you elaborate a bit why you think the QIC manufacturer do a bad job on it? Btw., there's currently probably only a single one left (Tandberg), and their SCSI implementations usually belong to the better ones. (Let's leave out stuff like Travan here.) > Let's cut this short. If you're willing to take over SA maintenance, > please say so. Well no, i don't wanna piss you off, nor do i have more time at hand than you. I'll be happy to eventually finish some long-standing floppy driver work... Some of the things there have been in my brain pipeline for years now. I once thought about re-implementing `programmable' tape devices, like they did exist pre-CAM, and are still reported as `available modes' in the mt stat output. This would allow people to pre-assign variable length for, say /dev/sa0.0, and fixed-length (for QIC-150 media) to /dev/sa0.1, and then use the appropriate subdevice. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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