On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Steven Stallion wrote: > All, > > I would like to propose a project to add SATA tape support to ON within > the Device Driver Community. SATA tape drives are becoming more common, > and are much cheaper than their SCSI counterparts. > > Thoughts?
I think it's an excellent idea. There was a set of frameworks written for SATA, that was integrated into OpenSolaris quite some time ago. http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2006011301/ It would make sense to use the frameworks for this purpose. 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. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
