From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 22 01:30:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA28901 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 01:30:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28896 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 01:30:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA06203; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 01:30:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 01:30:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: GLEN.W.MANN@monsanto.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Colorado (HP) T1000e Tape with Parallel Port In-Reply-To: <"0120185906-Colorado (HP) T1000e Tape with Parallel Port"@MHS> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 20 Jan 1998 GLEN.W.MANN@monsanto.com wrote: > Hello everyone- > > From scanning the questions archives and reading docs, it appears > that the T1000 tape backup is not supported. However, all the > info seems to point to a floppy interface, which FreeBSD does not > support. The T1000e has a parallel port connector connecting to > the printer port. Does this change anything? Yes; then it has absolutely no hope since the only things connected to the printer port are printers and Zip drives in 3.0-CURRENT. (Well, I guess the PPBus stuff could allow for a new horrendously-slow-parallel-tape driver. Takers?) > It's been some time since the last T1000 post. Anything new? Nope: Buy SCSI. Trust us. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major