From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 14:01:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26936 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 14:01:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26918 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 14:01:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29351; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:01:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199806152101.RAA29351@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: How to program the serial interface? In-Reply-To: from Marco Molteni at "Jun 15, 98 07:11:27 pm" To: molter@tin.it (Marco Molteni) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:01:19 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marco Molteni wrote: > [Please CC to me since I'm not subscribed to -questions] > > Hi all, > > I'm writing a user-level program to interface a DEC TU58, which is a > state-of-the-art ;-) tape drive; it uses a 256 KB cartridge. > > The interface to it is a RS-232, and I'm asking how do I program the PC > serial interface with FreeBSD? Are there any manual pages or some docs? > > If someone happens to own a TU58, I'll be happy to share the code ;-) > Yikes, what an antique! I'd check around on some Dec-oriented places. try http://www.decus.org They have some archives on DEC arcana. Maybe ask on port-pmax@netbsd.org. Do you actually have documentation for what that Dectape wants to have? Dave -- http://www.microsoft.com/security: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message