From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Apr 7 11:14:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA23658 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 11:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cicerone.uunet.ca (cicerone.uunet.ca [142.77.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA23640 Sun, 7 Apr 1996 11:14:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from why ([205.150.249.1]) by cicerone.uunet.ca with SMTP id <212000-6>; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 14:12:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 13:12:45 -0400 From: Andrew Herdman X-Sender: andrew@why To: Joerg Wunsch cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Archive Anaconda Tape drive 1.35GB && Adaptec 1542CF In-Reply-To: <199604070952.LAA17288@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 7 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > i sent a detailed description of the drive to freebsd-hackers > > (or was it questiosn?) around march 13th. > > Perhaps we should start a ``Tape drive FAQ''? Many people are > confused about the different tape drives, their subtleties (like for > the Anaconda, or the switches on the HP-DAT), their relative technical > merits, and the status and quality of FreeBSD supporting the different > kinds of drives. Sounds like a great idea. I've got an Archive Python here, bought it used, and don't even know what the lights mean, let alone the internal dip switches, and that strange jack in the back. In other words, sure the drive works fine, but I doubt i'm using it properly. Andrew