From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 18:44:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBB337B42C for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 18:44:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mark8 (hutch-361.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.61]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id UAA20399; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:42:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <00d701c00ca4$82713140$3d440ace@mark8> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Drew Sanford" , References: <399EB632.A946E80B@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: Zip Drives, SCSI controlers and 4.1-RELEASE Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:49:51 -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 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Drew Sanford" To: Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 11:30 AM Subject: Zip Drives, SCSI controlers and 4.1-RELEASE > I'm going to ask what I assume is a stupid question - Does FreeBSD > support SCSI zip drives? There I asked it. The reason I'm asking, is I > have one hooked up to an antique SCSI controler (its an ISA Future > Domain controler of some sort..I'm sure I could dig up the model number > somewhere if anyone thinks its worth it) that I'm pretty sure is not > supported by anything except NT4.0, which was holdover support from > NT3.5. What I'd like to know, is what can I get as far as a SCSI > controler that will work under 4.1-RELEASE, supports internal and > external (for the Zip) drives, and will support some form of newer SCSI > hard drive. Also, once I have such a beast, is FreeBSD just going to > pick up this Zip Drive and run with it, or am I going to have to make > some adjustments to get it working? Could someone point me to the proper > documents for these adjustments? Thanks. > You are right about one thing.....most of the old Future Domain scsi controllers don't work as of 3.x They do work under 2.x, but I can't recommend running that. Josh > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Drew Sanford > Email: lauasanf@bellsouth.net > ICQ: 8690555 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > "My mother said to me, if you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if > you > become a monk, you'll end up as the pope. Instead I became a painter and > wound up as Picasso." -- Pablo Picasso > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message