From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 06:24:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA29596 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 06:24:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA29590 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 06:24:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harlie (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.2]) by horst.bfd.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA03577; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 06:24:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 06:24:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" X-Sender: ejs@harlie To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: Brian Stewart , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD 2.1.5 support a QFA 700 Tape Backup drive and controller In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Brian Stewart wrote: > > > I have a QFA 700 tape backup drive and controller card and I would like > > to use it in my 2.1.5 box to back the system up. My question is... does > > 2.1.5 support it? > > Probably not, unless it's a SCSI tape; then the question is if the > controller's supported. The QFA 700 is QIC-02, so it should work with the wt0 driver, provided you can find a jumper-configured controller to use it with. Most QFA 700's I've seen come with a software configured controller, so you'd have to set up your FreeBSD machine to boot dos, run any configuration software, then boot FreeBSD. I've seen this done with Linux, but not FreeBSD, no reason it can't be done that I know of.