From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 17 17:45:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2689D14E41 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:45:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA01221; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 12:14:47 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 12:14:47 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: Sean Heber , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape drive compatibility question.. Message-ID: <19991218121446.B1108@freebie.lemis.com> References: <004701bf474d$a799ed80$0a04cfd1@mwci.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 15 December 1999 at 14:47:34 -0800, keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Sean Heber wrote: > >> Ok, since it's been determined that my current ATAPI Sony SuperStation will >> not work with FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE, I want to find out if another will work >> or not before I go off and get it: >> >> Tecmar 20GB TRAVAN NS20 SCSI Tape Drive >> >> Now it is my understanding that pretty much all SCSI tape drives will just >> work. But does anyone know for sure? Is there a list of things like this I >> could check instead of bugging all of you? > > :) > Sounds like the same posting I did two weeks ago after fighting with that > dang drive.. If ya get some good inexpensive suggestions let me know.. It doesn't look like it to me. Sean is wondering whether he will have trouble with the drive, and not expecting any. You seem to have had trouble. What was it? I would agree with Sean in expecting that the drive should "just work". Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message