From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 26 04:47:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA05423 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 04:47:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.worx.net (root@apollo.worx.net [204.178.64.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id EAA05418 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 04:47:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dq121.seacoast.com (dq121.seacoast.com [204.178.66.21]) by apollo.worx.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA19102 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 07:47:50 -0400 X-Remail: http://www.Eddress.com/ -- Personal Addresses for a Networked World Message-Id: <199708261147.HAA19102@apollo.worx.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Julie Meyer & Carl Todd" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 07:48:33 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: creating support for an IDE tape drive Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.54) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi folks, From what I gather, FreeBSD doesn't yet support IDE (Atapi) tape drives (I have a Seagate tapestore 8000). I'd like to know if there's a way for me to hack a bit and create this support. I'd like some help figuring out which direction to go with this and what I might have to do to create support for this device. I assume that the problem lies in the kernel but imagine I may have to create a new device driver as well. Thanks, Carl Todd chtodd@seacoast.com