Re: OnStream SCSI tape drives

Matthew Jacob (mjacob@feral.com)
Mon, 7 Jun 1999 11:35:36 -0700 (PDT)

The problem is that it's a 32k data record with a 512 byte aux record that
defines what's in the 32k data record. Plus a lot of other goop. I'm
fooling around with doing the FreeBSD support- and it's gonna be a bit of
work (basically you have to do all the low level work in the driver).

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Jurgen Botz wrote:

> The st driver barfs on OnStream SCSI tape drives...
>
> st0: Error with sense data: extra data not valid Current error
> st09:00: sense key Illegal Request
> Additional sense indicates Invalid command operation code
>
> Is anyone working on fixing this? OnStream's web site
> (www.onstream.com) has some hints that they're supporting linux
> driver development, but no details.
>
> I think OnStream's product is a really great technology, btw. Speed
> and capacity are as good or better than DDS3, AIT, and DLT but the
> drives are a fraction of the price of those other technologies. And
> if OnStream's claims are true the reliability should be comparable
> only to DLT.
>
> Now I need to be able to use this puppy to back up my Linux box...
>
> - Jürgen
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