From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 21: 3: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BFF537B424 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:02:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8N42cd86947; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:32:38 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:32:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Gustavo Pamplona Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QIC-80 Floppy Tape Drive Message-ID: <20000923133238.A78943@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20000922104605.0079f340@uai.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000922104605.0079f340@uai.com.br>; from pamplona@uai.com.br on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 10:46:05AM -0300 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 22 September 2000 at 10:46:05 -0300, Gustavo Pamplona wrote: > Hi. > > (Sorry for my English, I'm a brazilian) > > My name is Gustavo Pamplona > and... > > I have a floppy tape drive from Colorado Memory Systems. The model > is Colorado Jumbo 250 MB Floppy Tape Drive, for use with QIC-80 > FloppyTapes of 250 Megabytes. > > I intend to use it with FreeBSD. > > How could I use it with the "ft" device driver and if possible: > > - Is the drive supported by FreeBSD ? No. Not any more. The floppy tape driver has fallen into disuse, mainly because floppy tapes are so unreliable that you're better off without a tape. If you want to buy a tape, look for cheap DDS-2 drives, which are sometimes available new for under $100 (a few months back I bought three AIWA drives for $79 each on Ebay). Before choosing a drive, check for the cost of media, which can rapidly exceed the cost of the drive. If that's too expensive an outlay for you, consider a CD-R. I personally think it's too much work, but depending on your requirements you may find it a better fit. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message