From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: SCSI status? (Multiple partitions, tape drive) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:25:21 GMT
In article <BtCJJF.MMs@sun3.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca> pundsack@sun15.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Mark Pundsack) writes:
>I've been out of the group lately and I was wondering what the status of
>the SCSI support was. I hadn't seen anything posted about it.
>
>Does the SCSI support allow more than 4 hard drive partitions?
Yes.
>Is there any tape drive support yet? or is that waiting for general tape
No.
>drive support? The 0.96 release used to recognize my tape drive, but
No. Some one has a tape driver for SCSI tapes under testing. Tape
support will get in when either
1. This is done
2. The rewrite is done, and I can elegantly do SCSI/I/O directly
to user space because of the memory mapping allowed.
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