From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 16:28:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA13226 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 16:28:47 -0700 Received: from servo.ipsilon.com (foo-241-200.Ipsilon.COM [204.160.241.205]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA13219 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 16:28:45 -0700 Received: from localhost.ipsilon.com (localhost.ipsilon.com [127.0.0.1]) by servo.ipsilon.com (8.6.11/8.6.10) with SMTP id QAA12223; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 16:27:58 -0700 Message-Id: <199510172327.QAA12223@servo.ipsilon.com> X-Authentication-Warning: servo.ipsilon.com: Host localhost.ipsilon.com didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Craig Anderson cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: More on 8mm tape drives??? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Oct 1995 13:19:43 PDT." <199510162019.NAA15384@servo.ipsilon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 16:27:57 -0700 From: Craig Anderson Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Hi all, > Anyone know what brand of 8mm tape drive (and where to get them) is > usable with FreeBSD? > > Thanks very much, > Craig Anderson > 415-528-4606 > > Hi again, I guess I need to ask this question again with a bit of a difference. I got some good responses about 8mm drives (thanks!) but I think what I really need to know is this: does FreeBSD handle End-Of-Tape properly? On SunOS4.x the driver didn't handle end-of-tape (got a write error) so dump had to guess how long the tape was. Sun fixed this in Solaris 2.x but does the FreeBSD tape driver (and dump) work correctly? Can I put an 8mm tape stacker on FreeBSD and have it work correctly in sequential mode (i.e. at EOT the current tape kicks out, automatically loads the next and dump continues writing)? Does a stacker in sequential mode work, without all the fancy EOT stuff described above? Thanks for any and all info, Craig