From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 12 04:07:21 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 2D8CD16A41B for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:07:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA9B313C46A for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:07:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m1C47EkJ056450; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:07:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) with ESMTP id m1C47Eqe056447; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:07:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:07:14 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: User Ota In-Reply-To: <20080212011128.GC37628@noah.ota.homelinux.net> Message-ID: References: <20080212011128.GC37628@noah.ota.homelinux.net> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (BSF 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:07:14 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 04:07:21 -0000 On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, User Ota wrote: > 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 GCC is still around as http://gccprinters.com/. There's very little in their support base about the Ultradrive, but they may have more information by email. Other than finding cartridges, the question is going to be whether the drive can handle writing all on its own, or whether it needs an external driver. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA