From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 12 01:10:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84DF816A4BF for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:10:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ota@animenfo.com) Received: from smtp.unitz.ca (mx1.unitz.ca [69.60.224.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0629313C455 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:10:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ota@animenfo.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.unitz.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3697A5314EC for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:09:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtp.unitz.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.unitz.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id i9Zudneh0K+n for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:09:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from unitz.ca (dsl-69-60-252-220.unitz.ca [69.60.252.220]) by smtp.unitz.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id B8B375314ED for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:09:30 -0500 (EST) Received: by unitz.ca (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 ota@animenfo.com; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:11:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:11:28 -0500 From: User Ota To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080212011128.GC37628@noah.ota.homelinux.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Random driver for insanely old hardware X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:10:20 -0000 I have a question, just out of totally pure curiosity about one particular piece of hardware. Today I was browsin around Value Village (big giant thrift department store in Canada) here in Sudbury, and I came across A "GCC Technologies UltraDrive 50R", SCSI based and external -- from 1990. Now here's the maybe not so wierd part: only 1 out of like 4 hits on Google showed up as the UltraDrive 50R 50 Meg Removable Hard Drive, using Ricoh optical removable hard drives. I'm a fan of finding old computer stuff, and running legacy machines just to see what it was like and just for fun. Anyways, my question is: I cannot find ANYTHING whatsoever on the internet about this product. Out of pure curiosity, was there ever a driver available for FreeBSD; or, if you can comment, linux kernel? I just really wanna know. :P Russell Doucette