From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 1 20:19:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA02576 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 20:19:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from recom.recom.com (recom.recom.com [204.213.88.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA02563 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 20:19:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odhner (mt-holly-dial8.emanon.net [204.213.88.108]) by recom.recom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA07540 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 23:25:23 -0400 Message-ID: <31885440.7EE2@recom.com> Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 23:20:48 -0700 From: Geoff Odhner X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: About QIC-3020 tape drive use with FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have installed FreeBSD 2.1.0, and I find that my tape drive is not supported. It is a Ditto 3200, which uses the QIC-3020 format. It appears to me, from looking at the source file, that determining its geometry, and adding it to the array of geometry specifications, might be sufficient to allow me to use this tape drive. Can you tell me if someone has already done this work, and how to get the results to use? If not, can you perhaps give me a bit more information/explanation about the struct used to hold this information, and exactly what needs to go into it? If you tell me this and I am able to get it working, I will, of course, give you the table entry that works. Thanks for your help. -Geoff Odhner