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To: Philippe SCHACK <phschack@inba.fr>
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Subject: Re: Seagate TapeStor Backup 
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Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 09:45:35 +0930
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> Is there anybody here who has make the following hardware working on
> FreeBSD 2.2.2 ? :
> 
> Seagate TapeStor Backup drive on the floppy controller ?
> It uses Travan 2 or 3 tapes

No.  The floppytape support is very limited, and large, bogus devices 
like the Travan floppytapes are definitely not supported.  If you want 
a serious backup device, SCSI is the only way to go at the moment.

mike