Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 20:59:35 +1000 From: Joel Sutton <suttonj@interconnect.com.au> To: Mike Berry <berrym@seas.upenn.edu> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy/Parallel tape drive with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199704131059.UAA09399@solsbury-hill.home> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Apr 1997 21:47:20 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970404214319.2591S-100000@localhost>
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Mike > On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Mike Berry wrote: > > Hence, I want to buy one of the cheap FLOPPY or PARALLEL > > interface drives. Is it possible to use one of these drives? > > Well, I can't guarantee it'll work, but there is a new improved floppy > tape driver. The original only supported QIC-40 & QIC-80. You can try the > 'lft' driver, available at > ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/incoming/lft.tgz. I use a Colorado Jumbo 350 tape drive which takes QIC-80 tapes. I use the 170MB tapes and I haven't had any problems so far. I have also read reports of the Jumbo 250 working without modifications to the kernel. The lft program is a "must have" if you're going with a QIC-80 drive. > NO GUARANTEES THIS WILL WORK WITH YOUR TAPE! They are highly propietary. > SCSI tapes are the way to go, if possible. I have to agree with Doug here but, on the other side, I do know how you feel about the cost. Cost made my decision for me - it was either QIC-80 or floppy disks ;->. It's worth thinking about because the QIC-80 tapes are much more expensive than 4mm or 8mm DAT tapes, which can store gigabytes. If reliability/security is an issue then SCSI is the way to go. If you end up with a Jumbo 350, send me an email and I will forward you the patch to get it going with the 170MB tapes. Good luck. I hope this helps. Cheers, Joel...
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