From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 22 10:51:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA19290 for current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 10:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.pearson.udel.edu (hawk.pearson.udel.edu [128.175.64.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA19281 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 10:51:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.pearson.udel.edu (localhost.udel.edu [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.pearson.udel.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA06467 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:49:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199610221749.NAA06467@hawk.pearson.udel.edu> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Possibility? Organization: Broken Toys Unlimited Reply-To: alexandr@hawk.pearson.udel.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <6463.846006556.1@hawk.pearson.udel.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:49:16 -0400 From: Jerry Alexandratos Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I figured that this question was more appropriate for this group as oppossed to freebsd-questions. If I am wrong, please tell me so and I'll repost it there. I'm running 2.2-SNAP. My machine is a Gateway 2000 P5-75. It's got a WD Caviar 1.2G drive on the primary controller and a ATAPI cdrom on the secondary controller. As for other cards, there's the Mach64 PCI video card, a NE2000 clone, and a SoundBlaster 16 soundcard. Here's my problem. It's my job. Everyday my life is becoming more and more like a Dilbert strip. I won't bore you with all the details. Here's what I need to do. I was just given a Jaz drive to backup an image of the harddisk of our pcs (a lab with 30 machines). Hahahaha. Jaz drives are scsi devices and all of the machines only have ide controllers and drives (same configuration as my machine, but they're running Win95). So, digging through my box-o-parts (tm), I find that I've got an old Media-Vision PAS16 soundcard with scsi attachment (for that old external nec cdrom). Obvious questions. Is the Jaz drive supported under 2.2? If so, is the scsi port on a PAS16 supported? Ideally, what I'd like to do is pop the PAS16 into the machine and just use it for the scsi port. Plug the jaz drive (and hey, maybe even chain the extenal cdrom onto it) into the PAS16. Then, I can just use samba to allow the other machines in the site to read or write from the jaz and cdrom drive attached to my trusty FreeBSD box. This all seems easier than trying to explain to the powers-that-be that they screwed up. 8) Thanks in advance... --Jerry 8) Jerry Alexandratos % "Nothing inhabits my (8 8) darkstar@strauss.udel.edu % thoughts, and oblivion (8 8) darkstar@canary.pearson.udel.edu % drives my desires." (8