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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Floppy/Parallel tape drive with FreeBSD?
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On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Mike Berry wrote:

> I am running 2.2.1 on a 486 with IDE, but no SCSI.  I can't afford a
> SCSI tape setup but I desperately need to purchase a tape drive to get
> the job done.  Hence, I want to buy one of the cheap FLOPPY or PARALLEL
> interface drives.  Is it possible to use one of these drives?

Well, I can't guarantee it'll work, but there is a new improved floppy
tape driver.  The original only supported QIC-40 & QIC-80. You can try the
'lft' driver, available at
ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/incoming/lft.tgz.  

NO GUARANTEES THIS WILL WORK WITH YOUR TAPE!  They are highly propietary.
SCSI tapes are the way to go, if possible.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major