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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:41:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Eddie Fry <eddie@wicked.eaznet.com>
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Subject: Re: IOMega Ditto tape drive
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On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Eddie Fry wrote:

> I want to put a tape drive in my FreeBSD box.  I was thinking of the
> internal ditto easy drive.  I found the FAQ on QIC 40/80 drives.  Since
> the ditto easy drive is a floppy bus drive, will FreeBSD support it??? 

Probably not.  I have one and the ft driver sees it but it can't talk to
the tape properly (I think -- I haven't tried this recently :-) ).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major