From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 24 22:55: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from u2.netgate.net (u2.netgate.net [204.145.147.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0333537B637 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 22:55:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fishy@u2.netgate.net) Received: from localhost (fishy@localhost) by u2.netgate.net (8.8.5/8.8.8-KB.072299) with ESMTP id WAA08888; Wed, 24 May 2000 22:54:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 22:54:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Nick Sanders To: Kerry Davis Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape backups? In-Reply-To: <037a01bfc603$8133cb40$0200000a@system> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Look at chapter two, section three of the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-hw.html) The line you are probably interested in: With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for SCSI-I and SCSI-II peripherals, including hard disks, optical disks, tape drives (including DAT and 8mm Exabyte), medium changers, processor target devices, and CDROM drives. - Nick On Wed, 24 May 2000, Kerry Davis wrote: > I would like to know where I can find listings of supported tape-backup > devices. I found this information quite easily regarding OpenBSD, but I > don't see any listings of supported hardware, peripherals, and other devices > anywhere on freebsd.org. > > In particular, I know that OpenBSD doesn't support any > floppy-drive-interface tape backup units, as backup devices. Does FreeBSD > have the same limitation? Specifically, I have an Iomega Ditto Easy 3200 > tape backup unit that I would like to be able to use in a simple file server > box that I would be installing FreeBSD on. > > Thank you for your help. > > > Kerry Davis > Phoenix, AZ > > kedavis@uswest.net > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message