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Date:      Wed, 16 May 2001 17:30:48 -0600
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VXA autoPAK
Message-ID:  <20010516173048.A70652@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <0c2901c0de59$330d7730$24a6d4d1@melange>; from sam@errno.com on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:38:12PM -0700
References:  <0c2901c0de59$330d7730$24a6d4d1@melange>

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On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 15:38:12 -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> I've been handed one of these and potentially want to use it under FreeBSD.
> I know the device is supported under Linux and other random systems (e.g.
> Windows, Solaris) but there's no mention of FreeBSD.  Does anyone have any
> experience with this unit or similar products like the VXA-1?  I especially
> want to understand whether special software support is needed or if it'll
> work as a generic SCSI jukebox-style device with normal software.

It should work okay.  I've got a 15-tape Ecrix changer that seems to work
fine.

<ECRIX VXA-1 2848>                 at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
<SPECTRA 215 1008>                 at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (pass1,ch0)
<IBM DDYS-T18350M S93E>            at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass2,da0)
<SUPER GEM354 REV001 1.04>         at scbus1 target 6 lun 0 (ses0,pass3,pt0)

I haven't used it much (2-3 backups so far), but I haven't seen any
problems so far with it.  It works with the stock ch(4) driver and chio(1).
(sa(4) and mt(1) for the tape drive)

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org

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