From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 22:43: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from catalyst.sasknow.net (catalyst.sasknow.net [207.195.92.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A09137B404 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 22:43:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by catalyst.sasknow.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3G5gvX66993; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:42:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) X-Authentication-Warning: catalyst.sasknow.net: ryan owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:42:57 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Denny Jodeit Cc: Webmaster , Subject: Re: comic relief:Re: In need of HELP In-Reply-To: <005501c1e4fd$3e1c5eb0$6f830acf@gdennyj> Message-ID: <20020415232914.I57269-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Denny Jodeit wrote to Webmaster and questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > > not unless you change your email to > webmaster@customFREEBSDservers.com > > Oh that's funny. :-) The least you could have done was answer Jason's question. Making a wise crack about a posted question without also offering help is just bad form, IMHO... :-) JASON... Read below... Help is on the way :-) ----------------------------- > I have a Travan/Conner TR-3 tape drive 1.6GB/3.2GB that i'm trying > to get it working on FreeBSD-4.5 can you help me or point me in the > right direction. > > Thanks for your help > > Jason > webmaster@customlinuxservers.com Jason, Your question was quite general, so my response is going to be equally general. :-) First have a look at HARDWARE, available online at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.5R/hardware-i386.html I assume your tape drive is SCSI, which means it's essentially supported. Actually, I know a lot of the smaller/older Travan drives were IDE... if it's IDE, it's probably supported, but obviously not as a SCSI device. For instance, I have an old HP 2.5/5.0GB Travan drive that probes as ast0. Have a look at your dmesg output to see what the tape drive was probed as (i.e., which device node). Once you have that, make sure you have the correct entry in /dev (the MAKEDEV script can help you, here). From there, you should be able to use the standard array of utilities (or other popular but not so standard things like Amanda et. al), like tar, dump, etc. Which utilities you choose to back up you data are the subject of a completely different discussion. Check the mailing list archives... somebody starts a thread like that every few months. Hope this helps, - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901 1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-3630 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message