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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Colorado Floppy Tape Drives
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On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Jesse D. Troy wrote:

> I read in the FreeBSD handbook that tape drives connected to the floppy
> drive controller are supported.  I have a Colorado T1000 floppy tape
> drive.  This drive is connected to a floppy drive, not directly to the
> controller.  Does FreeBSD support this type of tape drive?

The likelyhood of support for this is somewhere between 1 and a million
and nil.

QIC-80 is about as big as you can get with floppy tape.  SCSI tapes work
pretty much flawlessly.

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