From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 30 11:42:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA27792 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 11:42:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (root@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA27775; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 11:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA02548 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:18:54 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id XAA02721; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 23:52:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199708292152.XAA02721@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Is this (SCSI) tape drive compatible with FreeBSD? To: dburr@POBoxes.com (Donald Burr) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 23:52:30 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Donald Burr" at Aug 29, 97 01:29:42 pm X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Donald Burr wrote... > I'm about to acquire an Archive Viper 2150S, (a SCSI-1 tapedrive). Is > this device compatible with FreeBSD's scsitape driver? (i.e. will I be > able to use dump, tar, cpio, etc. to do backup/restores with it, or > archive files, whatnot?) I use one with FreeBSD2.2.1R without problems. Has been working since 386BSD 0.1 or so ;-) _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ----------------------------------------------------------------------Yoda