From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 26 1:14:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-01.cdsnet.net (mail-01.cdsnet.net [206.107.16.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28B6414D96 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 01:14:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrcpu@internetcds.com) Received: (qmail 26161 invoked from network); 26 May 1999 08:14:31 -0000 Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (204.118.244.32) by mail.cdsnet.net with SMTP; 26 May 1999 08:14:31 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 01:14:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen X-Sender: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net To: Bryce Newall Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Onstream Tape Drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, I used a DLT2000 for years under FreeBSD, and it worked peachily. On Tue, 25 May 1999, Bryce Newall wrote: > > The drive is not supported. It uses very specific pieces of the SCSI > > command set, and we don't support them. > > > > Encourage OnStream to get the FreeBSD developers docs, and they'll be > > supported I'm sure. > > Bummer. :( I checked with Onstream before purchasing the drive, and they > said they weren't supporing Unix yet, meaning they hadn't written any > particular drivers. However, I had found in the past that most drives > will still work, especially SCSI drives. Not the case for this particular > drive, though, apparently. Do you know if FreeBSD will support DLT > drives? > > ********************************************************************** > * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * > * WWW: http://www.dreamhaven.net/~data * ICQ: 32620929 * > * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * > ********************************************************************** > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message