Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 12:07:49 -0700 (MST) From: Ron Warnick <ron@3rivers.net> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy tapes Message-ID: <199603121907.MAA06741@warnick.usa.net> In-Reply-To: <199603112221.IAA23536@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Mar 12, 96 08:51:55 am"
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> Dan Benjamin stands accused of saying: > > > > I have read the FAQ and Handbook, and was wondering, specifically, if > > there are certain brands or types of floppy tape drives that do or don't > > work with FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE. > > Floppy tapes don't work, period. It's possibly to cajole them into > sort-of working, but due to their hopeless design, it's impossible to > communicate with them in a fashion consistent with a 'real' operating system. > > If you want the grisly details, I'm happy to spell them out, but in short, > don't buy one, don't advise anyone else to buy one, and don't try using > one if you have it 8) > > Buy a cheap SCSI card (eg. Adaptec 1520) and get a SCSI tape. You will > _never_ regret it. > > > | Dan Benjamin dan@init.org | > I have a conner 250 MB on a floppy controller that worked (unreliably) with 2.1R. It would often die in the middle of a large backup, but always worked with small ones, using ft. With -current of Mar 6, any use of ft or mt immediatly locked the machine, no cores... no nothing. With -current, Mar 10, I get intermittent lockups or reboots, still no cores or messages. I was hoping that maybe the VM_ fixes would help, and will try again. But I'm not expecting too much of the conner. Ron
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