From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 29 14:24:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA29167 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 14:24:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA29159 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 14:24:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA15965; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 23:23:53 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.6/brasil-1.2) with UUCP id XAA23604; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 23:23:38 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.7/keltia-uucp-2.9) id XAA01302; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 23:23:19 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970829232319.33757@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 23:23:19 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: Donald Burr Cc: FreeBSD Hardware Subject: Re: Is this (SCSI) tape drive compatible with FreeBSD? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76 In-Reply-To: ; from Donald Burr on Fri, Aug 29, 1997 at 01:29:42PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3592 AMD-K6 MMX @ 208 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Donald Burr: > I'm about to acquire an Archive Viper 2150S, (a SCSI-1 tapedrive). Is > this device compatible with FreeBSD's scsitape driver? (i.e. will I be > able to use dump, tar, cpio, etc. to do backup/restores with it, or > archive files, whatnot?) You should have no problem at all with it. This is your average QIC-150 SCSI streamer; should work with 150 & 250 MB tapes. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #29: Tue Aug 26 21:05:09 CEST 1997