Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 17:54:26 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson) Cc: cmadison@tippy2.vnet.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9 track tapes????? Message-ID: <199702170054.RAA21252@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <19970216180335.11208@dan.emsphone.com> from "Dan Nelson" at Feb 16, 97 06:03:35 pm
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It seems that Dan Nelson said: > In the last episode (Feb 16), Chris Madison said: > > > > Has anyone successfully used a 9 track tape with a FreeBSD box? > > If so, I would LOVE to hear what HW was involved and how:-) > > 9-track tape drives work just fine, as long as you have SCSI ones. Old > tape drives with the Pertec interface (might look like 2 ribbon-cable > plugs next to each other) won't work, since there's no BSD driver for > the interface cards. Um, well *I'm* running a Cipher F880 w/ Pertec interface here and have been since 1.1-ish days. Unfortunately, I've not been able to get any "publicly available" information on the characteristics of the Pertec interface (I've already figured out how the controller card I have works) and so I can't release my driver for public consumption. :-( > Just treat them like regular tape drives, just a lot slower, bigger, > louder, and with a lot less capacity :) Yes, amazing how the DLT that sits next to my 9 track puts it to shame! But, of course, 1600BPI 1/2 inch tape still has several appliaction domains where you're forced to comply if you want to participate :-( Hopefully that will change in the near future... --don
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