From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 27 11:35:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA13248 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:35:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.213]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA13207 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:34:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00405; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:34:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:34:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Dott. Davide Tome'" cc: support@freebsd.com Subject: Re: HP Colorado Tape T3000i Floppy In-Reply-To: <199703210840.JAA57988@venere.inet.it> 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 Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Dott. Davide Tome' wrote: > Hi, > Two Questions: > > 1) Is the HP Colorado Tape T3000i floppy supported in some of > the future versions of FreeBsd ? Not unless someone shapes up the ft driver. SCSI tapes are the way to go. The floppy interfaces tend to be pretty proprietary. > 2) I have installed the 2.1.5 release of FreeBSD, I know there is > big problem in sicurity (CERT announce). > Do you suggest to upgrade to 2.1.7 or 2.2 ? If Yes which is the > software I have to get from ftp.cdrom.com to upgrade ? You will want to upgrade to 2.1.7.1 or later if you are concerned about system security. A rather large hole was discovered recently in releases < 2.1.7. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major