From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 00:09:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA05149 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:09:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA05115 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:09:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5688) with SMTP id JAA20399; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:09:22 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 08:56:59 +0100 (MET) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Rod Ebrahimi cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using tape In-Reply-To: <002901bd4177$2dc46040$0c8443d1@ip012.directhost.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Rod Ebrahimi wrote: % I have a sony 8mm tape drive how should I go about using it on my freebsd % systems? 1) Connect it (SCSI/IDE?) 2) Figure out what type it is and see if it is supported by FreeBSD 3) if it is go to step 12345678 4) write device driver for it. ... [couple of steps left out] 12345678) do a 'mt -f /dev/nrst status'. 12345679) If all is good, the drive decides to have a look at the tape and return some information about it. Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changed offices... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STA-ISIS, Joint Research Centre, Italy building: 27A tel.: +39 332 78 9549 fax.: +39 332 78 9185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message