Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:11:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (hackers) Subject: Re: OK, next question. IOMEGA Easy accelerator board Message-ID: <199608280711.JAA02260@tetard.glou.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <199608280131.LAA09658@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Aug 28, 96 11:01:39 am"
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Michael Smith écrit / writes: > > Anybody know what kind of boards these IOMEGA tape drive boards are, and > > the level of complexity in writing a driver for them? These little backup > > tape units are great under win95, but of course, I want FreeBSD. They suck under FreeBSD. > > It appears to be a floppy disk controller, but apparently runs at a faster > > rate than the standard FDC. > > Then I would guess that it's a floppy-disk controller (or at least something > rather similar). It's not at all recognized, even if you force the card in irq 6, and disable on-board floppy. I've got one tied up in a P133, using the new 'lft' you mentioned - after a few tests it came out that: - 'ft' is unusable - 'lft' is a bit better - 1/4 times it times out on inquiry (i.e.: status), and the tape runs for a couple of hours by itself, short of extracting it - the tapes need to be fornatted (!), and that takes: - 6 hours (3.2 Gb) on the fast controller (i.e. under dos) - 16 hours through floppy controller Conclusion: The thing went into a w95 box, and we back up by samba/ ethernet the disks :-P BTW, the current Windows driver hangs if you try to backup files with a Danish 'ø' (that's o with a / in it for non-latin people). Hilarious. Not. > There was a post a little while back (from JMB?) about someone having > written a new control program for the 'ft' device which was supposed to be > better than its predecessor. > > Note that nobody in their right mind uses those stupid floppytape devices, > as they're basically impossible to talk to without busy-waiting on them. Right. -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / regnauld@eu.org / +55.4N +11.3E @ Sol3 / +45 31241690 ]- -[ "To kärve or nøt to kärve, that is the qvestion..." -- My sister ]-
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