From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 14:34:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA28689 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 14:34:33 -0800 (PST) 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 OAA28674 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 14:34:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA20212; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:29:40 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604032229.PAA20212@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Tape storage media. To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:29:40 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9604031950.AA10319@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> from "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" at Apr 3, 96 02:50:25 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-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I was wondering if anybody could tell me all the possible tape storage > devices that are supported by FreeBSD and most PC's. The hardware > document that came with FreeBSD makes mention of the Wangtek and Archive > QIC-02/QIC-36 to be connected to /dev/wt0. Are these models the only > supported model? Like everyone OEM's QIC-80 drives from Colorado, everyone OEM's other QIC drives (11/24/etc.) from Cypher (push-click-little-stop-tab-that-breaks) and from Archive (slide-on-left-side-of-door-CLUNK-whirrrr). The wt0 has worked on the NCR, Computone, etc. drives that I've tried (the Computone QIC-24 controller can be jumpered for QIC-11; good thing to remember if you have a Sun-3 or Metheus box, since they are QIC-11). > Are these Wangtek models configurable to DOS and/or Win95 on most > common PC's? With drivers, yes. Specifically, you'd need a controller driver from one manufacturer or another... > Are they commonly available and what would they typically cost? Check computer shoppper, and they are generally cheap. If you have SCSI, I would recommend a SCSI tape drive instead. Newer drives are all SCSI, and they generally store a lot more (I have a 1/2G with no compression QIC drive from "Dirt Cheap Drives" in computer shopper; it's SCSI II and it is quite fast... I shoebox it to all of my machines; cost less than $200). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.