Alan DuBoff wrote: > 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.
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. 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. Cheers, Steve -- Yet magic and hierarchy arise from the same source, and this source has a null pointer. Reference the NULL within NULL, it is the gateway to all wizardry. _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
