Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:20:55 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <luck@computerking.ca>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: t1000e tape drive Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIELCFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <1754.205.206.140.8.1110425400.squirrel@secure.computerking.ca>
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HP stopped supporting this drive after Windows 98, see here: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=lp g15246&locale=en_US What you have is basically a floppy controller tape drive. If you have a parallel port one then you have a floppy controller tape drive inside a case that has an interface card that on one side speaks parallel port and the other side speaks floppy port. Nothing like this was ever supported in FreeBSD. Years ago FreeBSD did have a floppy port tape drive driver. I only got it to work once on a 486/33. (I should have kept the machine as it was so rare to find one that worked) If you extracted your tape drive from it's case and plugged it into the floppy controller you might be able to load up a really old FreeBSD version and get it running. But this driver was removed from FreeBSD right around the time that HP stopped supporting your drive. This is why these tape drives are so cheap. If you really want to mess with a Travan tape drive under FreeBSD then find a used SCSI one like the following: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=39979&item=5171718 413&rd=1 But I would recommend against this for an experimenter - instead find a DDS3 12/24GB 4mm DAT drive off Ebay that hasn't been beat up too bad. The media is cheap and these are pretty compatible with everything. Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of > luck@computerking.ca > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 7:30 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: t1000e tape drive > > > I just purchased a t1000e paralel port tape backup drive and > cannot find > any info on how to make it work on freebsd 4.10 stable. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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