Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 22:55:19 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: support for HP SureStore DAT8 Tape Drives? [scanners?] Message-ID: <199801280655.WAA02043@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 27 Jan 98 20:18:30 -1000. <199801280618.UAA02540@pegasus.com>
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>} In general, SCSI devices are always universally supported, unless they
>} are abhorrent violators of SCSI protocols or standards. There are
>} minor exceptions to this, but you should never have to ask "is this
>} supported" of SCSI devices (this doesn't include SCSI controllers)
>} unless it's a truly bizarre device. Modern DAT drives are not bizarre
>} SCSI devices.
>Cool. So how do I get BSD to talk to my Microtek scanner?
Read: bizarre device. :-)
OK, I'll confine my comments to storage-oriented devices.
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Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix.
Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C.
--< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >--
NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3,
Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32...
NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others...
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