[ should we keep this on -current ?? ] As Bob Willcox wrote ... > On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:36:25AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > As Bob Willcox wrote ... > > > On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 10:26:36PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > As Bob Willcox wrote ... > > > > > On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 08:45:36PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > Hmm, why is that? The newest of the IBM branded Exabyte 8200's that I > > > > That is what I've been told by an Exabyte engineer years back. I can only > > guess that some OEMs need adaptations to the firmware behaviour that are > > incompatible with what the rest of the world needs (or has standardised > > on, e.g. in the ANSI SCSI standard). Again, guessing. > > Well, I can only speak for the IBM OEM'd drives that I have (as a > retired IBMer, I've been picking them up at their employee surplus > store here in Austin, TX). For these drives the generic firmware works > just fine. I can see why Exabyte wouldn't openly recommend the change > though. The hardware is probably the same, so an EPROM swap brings them to the generic model. > recall that we did have some customizations in the firmware for the > RS/6K AIX systems. In addition to changing the Inquiry command Vendor > ID data, I believe there were some functional changes (I don't recall > the details). I have always suspected that the functional changes are > likely what made the IBM OEM'd drives fail on FreeBSD! The upgraded > firmware IBM drives work on both (as "Other SCSI Tape Drive"). That is quite possible. And it matches the recommendation of the Exabyte engineer. > > Mine works OK with that f/w. Not that I use the 8200 often anymore, > > I like my DLT4000 much better than the 8200. ;-) > > I much prefer my Exabyte Mammouth drives as well :-) > > (But I do seem to get some fun out of playing with the 8200's I get for > $10 apiece from the surplus store :-) Absolutely right. And I got my DLT4000 for US$ 25 so you can guess where I got it from 8-) Groeten / Cheers, | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
