Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 14:30:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Howard Lew <hlew@sequence.Stanford.EDU> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exabyte TR-3 tape backup Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961208142846.3895F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961207120202.6579C-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU>
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On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Howard Lew wrote: > Has anyone tried using the Exabyte TR-3 tape backup with FreeBSD and > gotten it to work? I have one of these beasts here and the 2.1.6R probe > does not find the device at all. I tried adding the flags 0x1 and still > no luck. > > The tape backup runs off the floppy tape controller. And the box says > that it can compress up to 4.4Gigs (2.2Gigs uncompressed) on a Verbatim > TR-3 Extra Minicartridge. Sounds great, but no dice so far... Absolutely not supported. QIC40 & 80 tapes only. The experimental lft tape driver MIGHT do something with it, but I'm guessing that nowadays, floppy interfaced tape drives are basically proprietary monsters. SCSI tapes are most always well behaved. > Thanks in advance for any ideas or suggestions... This would be awesome > if it worked. If not, then I guess SCSI is the way to go and get that > expensive DAT drive. That would be correct. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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