From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jan 21 17:11:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA22760 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 17:11:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA22708 Sun, 21 Jan 1996 17:10:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA16869; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 11:48:20 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601220118.LAA16869@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Iomega Ditto Easy 800 (Universal TRAVAN) EXTERNAL under FreeBSD? To: d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 11:48:19 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Donald Burr" at Jan 20, 96 10:15:07 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Donald Burr stands accused of saying: > AT any rate, in general, I'm trying to find out: > > 1) is a driver for these tape drives under FreeBSD available? No. > 2) is it possible to inexpensively get the spec's for one of these > and write a driver for it? (obviously, I'd prefer releasing it as > source, but if not possible [ie if they require a NDA] I would > consider a binary-only release, since I'm not really planning on > GPL'ing it) I'm not sure, but I suspect that a lot of money would be involved, as otherwise there would be more commercial DOS software that supported them. > 3) if the answer to 2) above is "Yes!", who do I contact at Iomega or > wherever, and how do I contact them? (email? fax? snail mail?) > and what do I say or ask for specifically? Ask them about their Developer Support program, and don't mention anything about your budget, "free" software or the fact that you're a solo. > Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[