From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 4 12:53:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA27212 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 12:53:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA27087 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 12:52:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA15064 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 21:52:29 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id VAA25073 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 21:51:52 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.2/keltia-uucp-2.9) id VAA04304; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 21:44:14 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199611042044.VAA04304@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 21:44:14 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scsi dat drive under freebsd References: <199611041136.WAA09945@suburbia.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.49.07 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#2632 In-Reply-To: <199611041136.WAA09945@suburbia.net>; from Julian Assange on Nov 4, 1996 22:36:56 +1100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Julian Assange: > Will freebsd support 4mm DAT tape drives? I haven't noticed any specific > support. The solaris st driver documentation has some magic-data for 4mm > DATs using Helical scans, which seems to imply that they need specific > support? Apart from maybe supporting changing the compression mode by software, I don't see what could be special. Anyway, my HP 35480A has been working for a long long time. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #26: Sun Oct 27 19:39:11 MET 1996