On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Steven Stallion wrote: >> I'm not sure about the various chipsets which are integrated into SATA >> Tape drivers, do you have some experience with that, and if so, do you >> know if there are a limited amount of chipsets? If there was a common >> chipset, or if there was a chipset that was used for a majority of SATA >> Tape drives, it would also make sense to do that first of course. > > Unfortunately I do not. > > (However) I am more than willing to put in the research and development > time. I have a Quantum DLT-V4 handy that I can develop/test against to > start with.
Ok, maybe we can get some help as well. I'm going to engineer that architected the SATA frameworks. Maybe he can give some advice. Pawel, Can you give us some advise here? What would be the best way to start work on a SATA Tape driver? > I am hoping that this will be a matter of exposing SATA tape devices as > SCSI tape devices, similar to how SATA disks function today. Not that > this will necessarily be an easy task, but at the very least it has > piqued my curiosity. I think this will automatically happen if you code to the SATA frameworks, but maybe Pawel can clear that up. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list driver-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
