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7 It is intended to help advanced users to understand the role of osst and to
8 get them started using (and maybe debugging) it.
23 Nevertheless, the OnStream tapes are nice pieces of hardware and therefore
25 The driver is free software. It's released under the GNU GPL and planned to
31 The osst is a new high-level SCSI driver, just like st, sr, sd and sg. It
34 are character devices with major no 206 and minor numbers like the /dev/stX
37 The driver started being a copy of st and as such, the osst devices'
44 that it used the same kernel structures and the same device node as st.
47 st and osst can coexist, each only accessing the devices it can support by
55 Compile your kernel and install the modules.
86 supported and you may try the mt (or mt_st) program to jump between
91 (This limitation is worked on and will be fixed in version 0.8.8 of
95 for creating and restoring a full backup:
102 tape (or the file system) in order to smooth out the data stream and prevent
103 the tape from needing to stop and rewind. The OnStream does have an internal
104 buffer and a variable speed which help this, but especially on writing, the
108 Expect something like 1.8MB/s for the SC-x0 drives and 0.9MB/s for the DI-30.
114 USB and IDE
116 Via the SCSI emulation layers usb-storage and ide-scsi, you can also use the
117 osst driver to drive the USB-30 and the DI-30 drives. (Unfortunately, there
119 well.) For the USB support, you need the latest 2.4.0-test kernels and the 
125 format and therefore is not completely interoperable with osst tapes.
127 The ADR-x0 line is fully SCSI-2 compliant and is supported by st, not osst.
131 Feedback and updates
135 a CVS repository and some web pages. 
136 The tester's pages which contain recent news and updated drivers to download
141 to see whether the problem is already known and solved. Otherwise, please
145 * driver and kernel version used (see syslog)
147 * SCSI config and OnStream Firmware (/proc/scsi/scsi)
149 * software and commands used
169 I did add some patches to those drivers as well and coordinated things a
174 and always tried to answer HW or FW related questions. Furthermore, he
177 time for them and by integrating the driver into their distro.
180 been forgotten. Thanks to all the GNU/FSF and Linux developers who made this
181 platform such an interesting, nice and stable platform.
182 Thanks go to those who tested the drivers and did send useful reports. Your