Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 07:50:20 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i/o error with larger QIC Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904230748550.4332-100000@feral.com> In-Reply-To: <199904230812.SAA00532@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au>
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> > >At any rate, if we could just > >accept a 1FM at EOT model with 2FM @EOT as the exception (solely for > >drives that cannot report early warning (1/2" reel drives) a *lot* of the > >problems would go away. > > That sounds fine to me. What broke? I'm having a little time off, and Well, QIC usage was broken by me. And then a 'feature' where I would try and eject the tape if a wfm failed was added by me. Both are (still slowly) in process of being fixed. > have a TDC4200 (QIC), Archive Viper 525 (QIC), Exabyte 8200, and a Kennedy > 6250bpi 1/2" reel to reel rack mount job, but I don't know if it works yet. ;-) > Oh, and I've got a couple other QIC drives of unknown health in the cupboard. > I could do a bit of testing after I get my hardware put back together. I've > got a lot of upgrading and rebuilding scheduled. I might even throw out > some of the stuff that no longer works! :-) I'll take you up on the Kennedy and QIC testing! > > Stephen. > > PS Anybody interested in getting FreeBSD working on old Mips hardware? > Say a Mips 3260? Should be about as fast as a 486... I think warner losh is working on MIPS now.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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