Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 01:34:37 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chris@bb.cc.wa.us (Chris Coleman) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org (FreeBSD SCSI list) Subject: Re: Tape Backup Drive Not working. Message-ID: <Mutt.19970202013437.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970201155534.18273A-100000@aries.bb.cc.wa.us>; from Chris Coleman on Feb 1, 1997 16:00:21 -0800 References: <199701251540.PAA16318@deacon.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <Pine.NEB.3.94.970201155534.18273A-100000@aries.bb.cc.wa.us>
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As Chris Coleman wrote: > I am still under warranty, so I am thinking of sending it back and getting > a new Tape Drive. I have the Adaptec 2910 scsi card for it. Tell me > whether i should send this back also. The 2910 card is a Future Domain controller, without a BIOS. Nothing much to worry about, certainly a < $50 piece. Unsupported in FreeBSD by now, though somebody wrote in Usenet (or on this list?) that he's going to start porting a driver. Whether you could use the drive with FreeBSD depends on whether you could squeeze some documentation out of HP that explains the SCSI handling. Sure, we are interested to see the drive supported (i've heard this name quite often lately, they appear to be cheap), but i'm afraid you'll run out of patience until it finally flies. > I need to know which Tape Drives > are fully supported in 2.1.6-RELEASE. Ill get one of them. Almost all. Avoid the el-cheapos, they often have firmware quirks that make the life harder, see your example. Exabyte is the patch-of-the-week firmware company. HP DATs used to be usable, but lately, they often die a very early death. Many people basically distrust all the helical scan tape drives (including me). I'm happy with my Tandberg drive, QIC-2.5GB (plus hardware compression for the 2 and 2.5 GB media). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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