Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:08:56 -0500 (CDT) From: Rory Imua Lampert <rory@wwa.com> To: "Swanson, Toby J." <tjswanson@tva.gov> Cc: "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: iomega tape drives Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970424095320.26596A-100000@sokie.kae.net> In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=attmail%p=tva%l=KNXNOROIS1B-970424132931Z-8820@chachaois2b.cha.tva.gov>
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Hello, I've set up my IOMega 3200 tape drive..sort of..by adding this line to the kernel config: tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 2 Now, on boot it recognizes the drive fine, but unfortunately there is no support for QIC-3020 tape formats in the driver, or TR-3 (which is what the format of my only tape is). If you look at /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/ft.c, you will find a table of tape geometries. It is under my impression that it is just a matter of adding the geometry for QIC-3020 and TR-3 tapes to this table to get a funtioning driver. I have sent e-mail to several newsgroups, mailing-lists and manufacturers asking if anyone has these parameters, to no avail. Also I downloaded Linux's ftape program and scoured the source for tape parameters to QIC 3020, but didn't find anything useful. Unfortunateley no one has updated the table for 2.2.1, or probably 3.0 for that matter. If you or anyone can find out the parameters to these tape formats, let me know, I would like to be able to back up my machine sometime. Or perhaps the information is easily found but I didn't use my calculator correctly. :> -Rory Imua Lampert rory@wwa.com On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Swanson, Toby J. wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed and used an iomega ditto tape drive > with FreeBSD? Any comments from someone who has set up one will be > appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Toby > > >
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