Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:38:19 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> To: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question - Onstream SCSI Streamer Message-ID: <199905122338.QAA14698@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 May 1999 18:28:41 CDT." <19990512182841.A20409@Denninger.Net>
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Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> wrote:
> Well, for the kinds of use to which we'd put the device (ie: streaming
> tape) a 32k block size isn't horrid. I can see where if you tried to use
> it as a random-access replacement (ie: to write "files" to) you'd be rather
> unhappy with the wastage that this would cause, but for streaming
> applications I doubt it hurts much.
True. I was just mentioning that as an example of how "different"
the OnStream drive is from traditional SCSI tape drives.
> I'll try hardcoding THAT as a quirk and see if the drive decides it would
> like to at least get past the open and actually perform I/O :-)
Heh. I really, really hope it works, but I'll bet that there are
enough other quirks that it won't. ;-(
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@sr.hp.com
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