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Date:      Fri, 29 Aug 1997 23:23:19 +0200
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hardware <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Is this (SCSI) tape drive compatible with FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <19970829232319.33757@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970829132814.21095B-100000@DonaldBurr.DonaldBurr.dyn.ml.org>; from Donald Burr on Fri, Aug 29, 1997 at 01:29:42PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970829132814.21095B-100000@DonaldBurr.DonaldBurr.dyn.ml.org>

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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



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