From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 28 23:18:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA03033 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:18:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA03027 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:18:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA06954; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:20:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:20:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: netnology@psinet.net.au cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syquet parallel removable cartridges In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961126082416.00948718@mail.psinet.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 26 Nov 1996 netnology@psinet.net.au wrote: > I am setting up a freebsd machine to take care of a small office LAN. So > far, I can use SAMBA to share freebsd filespace and the office printer and > CERN HTTPD proxying for internet access. What I would like to do now is use > our syquest drive (parallel interface) to enable backups of data from the > pcs. Using SAMBA I can read all of the files, so I was wanting to use tar > and/or gzip to write these files to the syquest drive using cron or some such. The only paralell-interfaced drive that is semi-supported is the Zip. The SCSI version of all of thse drives (with a supported controller) are supported with no problems AFAIK. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major