From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat May 29 0:17: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69F2D14CBE for ; Sat, 29 May 1999 00:16:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA18108; Sat, 29 May 1999 08:04:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 08:04:59 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "System Admin." Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printer & tape backup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 28 May 1999, System Admin. wrote: > Hi all, > Does FreeBSD/Alpha support lpt and tape backup devices? How come I > can't print and backup the system? If it support how can I do it? and what > device should I looking for? Printer isn't there yet (its waiting for someone to have the time to port the i386 ppc driver). SCSI tape should be well supported and ATAPI tape probably works in -current (not tested). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message