Firewire tape drives

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:52, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:43:57PM +0900, Katsushi Kobayashi wrote:
> > If the device works with SBP-II protocol, I believe it will work on CAM
> > framework as usual SCSI device.
>
> umass(4) should work for USB as well.

I am not a huge fan of USB devices to be honest..

> > On 2004/03/17, at 14:39, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >Does anyone have any? Do they work in FreeBSD? :)
> > >
> > >I have seen a Sony AIT2 drive with a Firewire/USB2 option and I'd be
> > >interested to know if it works in FreeBSD as UW SCSI cards are rather
> > >pricey..
>
> Noname cards based on Symbios chips are inexpensive and our sym(4)
> driver is very reliable.

Yes, but I find them difficult to obtain :(

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