Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 17:37:50 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: b@cc.cc.com (Beavis) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supported Tape Drives Message-ID: <199603190707.RAA00195@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <313FE0F7.5F72@cs.acu.edu> from "Beavis" at Mar 7, 96 11:25:43 pm
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Beavis stands accused of saying:
>
> I finally started sifting through the documentation looking for a hint as
> to what FreeBSD supported. The only idea I got was that it supported
> SCSI and QIC-40/80. I am specifically interested in a floppy tape system
> for my home so that rules out SCSI.
Stop right here. Do _NOT_ buy a floppy tape. If you have searched the
archives as you claim, you must surely have come across endless ranting about
why floppy tapes are _evil_. If not, go look again 8)
> That is all I got out of searching through the messages. I am rather
> frustrated that a specific list does not exist (and if it does, it is not
> easy to find). I saw a request for one but no reply to the request. So,
> I have decided to ask my specific questions and find out exactly what is
> known.
A 'specific list' doesn't exist because such an item would be a moving
target; it would be perenially wrong and out of date.
> Here are the Questions:
>
> (My Ideal Drive)
> 1. Is the SyQuest EZ135 Internal IDE drive supported?
It looks like an IDE disk. Disk change notification may not be perfect.
> 2. Is the SyQuest EZ135 External SCSI drive supported?
AFAIK it looks like a SCSI disk. I've heard people have these working fine.
Why are you opposed to a SCSI tape drive, yet willing to buy one of these?
If backups are your goal, a SCSI DAT won't cost much more than an EZ135, yet
it will hold 10+ times as much data.
> (Other Great Options)
> 3. Is the Iomega IDE Zip drives supported?
No idea. If they behave, they probably work OK.
> 4. Are any Iomega IDE/SCSI drives supported?
The SCSI Zip ("Mac Zip") is being used by several people with great success.
> (Standard Options)
> 5. Is the Conner Tape Stor 800 internal IDE drive supported?
> 6. Is the Ditto Easy 800 Internal IDE drive supported?
> 7. Is the Jumbo Internal IDE drive supported?
No, no and no. IDE tapes are not supported. If they're even half as bad
as IDE CD-ROMs, they're not likely to get much attention soon.
As a general rule, broken hardware, especially _fundamentally_ broken
hardware, tends to get support last under FreeBSD.
> Thanks for you time (I realize it is a long message),
Not a problem. Sorry for the incredibly negative reply 8(
> Bradford Taylor
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