Onstream?
Soren Schmidt
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.100030...@semuta.feral.com> Matthew Jacob writes:
> : I gave up on supporting it- too much work for too little gain, IMO.
>
> The same thing happened on the IDE side of things. Even with Soren's
> hacks, I never could get it to work well. It worked as well as one
> would expect a win-tape drive to work :-<.
>
> I have one of these beasts if someone wants it. I got it from the
> onstream folks (they have an office here in Longmont). I tried to
> help Soren out, but my tolerence for working in the project was
> extremely low.
That drive is a joke, I'd never recommend it for data you care for..
However I still have it on my TODO list, it just keeps getting
pushed further and further down on it...
The ATAPI version is somewhat supported, ie you can access it, but
there are no filemarks (the drive doesn't support that) and there
is no handling of media errors (the drive doesn't support that either).
Other than that it can be used :)
-Søren
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Christian Weisgerber
> I just got an onstream scsi tape drive only to discover that I should've
> checked the archives because it don't work.
Depends on the drive. If you got an Echo drive (SCxx), you're right.
The ADR drives--yes, they all use ADR tape technology, but confusingly
there's also a model line called "ADR"--on the other hand, are
ordinary SCSI drives, according to the OnStream representative I
talked to at CeBIT. For instance, they're certified to work with
the plain Linux SCSI tape driver.
A few days ago I asked whether anybody's running an ADR50 successfully
off a FreeBSD box but received no response. Actually I'm not sure
the ADR50 is in the stores yet.
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.rhein-neckar.de
Matthew Jacob
I gave up on supporting it- too much work for too little gain, IMO.
However, somebody has contacted me about doing the work, but it'll be quite
some time before it would be supported.
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Alan Batie wrote:
> I just got an onstream scsi tape drive only to discover that I should've
> checked the archives because it don't work. I see that 6+ months ago
> there was some talk about working on it eventually and I thought I'd
> see if anything came of that? Is there work being done or should I
> just send it back? It would be a real shame as for the capacity (25G)
> it's far cheaper than anything else. Looks like they've taken a
> Travan cartridge and made it a lot bigger to hold more tape.
>
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Matthew Jacob
Ditto here. What happened with me on this is that I looked at the amount of
fooling around it would take, then heard they'd do a "real" SCSI i/f in the
next 6 months, and so dropped the ball.
I have one also, which I can let someone have.
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.100030...@semuta.feral.com> Matthew Jacob writes:
> : I gave up on supporting it- too much work for too little gain, IMO.
>
> The same thing happened on the IDE side of things. Even with Soren's
> hacks, I never could get it to work well. It worked as well as one
> would expect a win-tape drive to work :-<.
>
> I have one of these beasts if someone wants it. I got it from the
> onstream folks (they have an office here in Longmont). I tried to
> help Soren out, but my tolerence for working in the project was
> extremely low.
>
> Warner
