From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 2 17:31:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1b.mail.yahoo.com (smtp3.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 626B637B503 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:31:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from roc-24-161-70-254.rochester.rr.com (HELO halstead007) (24.161.70.254) by smtp.mail.vip.suc.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Feb 2001 02:34:19 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <011a01c08d80$e853a4e0$0601a8c0@halstead007> From: "James Halstead" To: Subject: How to use parallel port tape drive Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:30:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a tape drive (hp coloradoo700) which uses qic-3010 tapes. I wanted to use it but I do not know how to access the drive over the parallel port. The only tape drives I saw in the NOTES file are scsi. Can somebody please point me to man pages / web pages that will show how to use a drive like this? I am running on 5.0 current. Thanks for any help, ~James _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message