Immediate rewinds as well. I have one and was going to do the FreeBSD
driver for it, got halfway done and distracted. I've had reports of media
problems with these drives. What I found attractive was the cost per
megabyte of storage, but the aggro of doing 31.5Kbyte records (data + aux
frame) and software filemark management made it something more than I
could find the time for.
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 12:17:34AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > What's special about them that the current scsi tape support won't
> > support?
>
> It needs some support from the host when errors are occuring.
> Also, some data structures must be kept up to date by the driver.
> Filemarks need software support.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL
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