From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 13 16:23:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA07014 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 16:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA07009 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 16:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA05914; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 16:21:21 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604132321.QAA05914@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Colorado QFA 500 To: dpflag@ix.netcom.com (Daniel P. Pflager) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 16:21:21 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, dpflag@ix.netcom.com In-Reply-To: <316F8CD9.1D7F@ix.netcom.com> from "Daniel P. Pflager" at Apr 13, 96 12:15:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I guess I've answered my own question. The QFA 500 > appears to work with the wt0 driver just fine. > > 1) Should I let the doc project know? Heavens no! They would just document it, and then we wouldn't be able to answer "does the QFA 500 work?" questions with things like "yes, use the wt0 driver -- it works just fine". 8-) 8-). > 2) Is there a test suite which I could run to ensure > it is "really" compatible. (I've just been using > tar with it). Maybe step through all of the MT commands. I haven't seen a tape driver validation suite outside of a lab at NCR before AT&T bought them. > 3) How can I make /dev/rwt0 the default tape device > (for tar, mt, etc?). Point me to the doc... Recompile it. The default is /dev/rst0 (see the man page). This should probably be install-time configurable... anyone? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.