From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 25 17:23:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA23260 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:23:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA23254 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:23:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA25990; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:18:13 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604260018.RAA25990@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Tape Backup To: markb@chartway.com (Mark Bernard) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:18:13 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Mark Bernard" at Apr 25, 96 04:10:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm looking for backup solutions for my 2.1 release. We have a Colorado > Trakker 350 parallel tape backup. Are there any software packages out > there or is there anything built in that I can use that tape backup. I do not believe any parallel port devices, other than printers and PL/IP, are supported because of proprietary access methods. THere was a recent posting of a response from Xirxom -- Xircom, in quoted material in the post, said that freeware authors would be provided with information necessary to write drivers for their devices. No such information has been forthcoming from CMS regarding the PL devices... you would have to get the information from them. In addition, since this means that the device is currently unsopported, it is unlikely that anyone else in the BSD camps has one available for testing and/or deriver writing to help you out, which would pretty much put you on your own. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.