Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 21:47:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Mike Berry <berrym@seas.upenn.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy/Parallel tape drive with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970404214319.2591S-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199704050437.XAA01297@red.seas.upenn.edu>
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On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Mike Berry wrote: > I am running 2.2.1 on a 486 with IDE, but no SCSI. I can't afford a > SCSI tape setup but I desperately need to purchase a tape drive to get > the job done. Hence, I want to buy one of the cheap FLOPPY or PARALLEL > interface drives. Is it possible to use one of these drives? Well, I can't guarantee it'll work, but there is a new improved floppy tape driver. The original only supported QIC-40 & QIC-80. You can try the 'lft' driver, available at ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/incoming/lft.tgz. NO GUARANTEES THIS WILL WORK WITH YOUR TAPE! They are highly propietary. SCSI tapes are the way to go, if possible. 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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