From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 5 02:57:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B4A16A419 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 02:57:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 786FD13C428 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 02:57:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l752vi2r012233; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 22:57:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jackbarnett@gmail.com Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 22:56:48 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <46B538E8.7060602@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46B538E8.7060602@gmail.com> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708042256.50421.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: Re: Iomega Ditto Max Pro X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:57:45 -0000 On Saturday 04 August 2007, jbarnet wrote: > Hello, > > I have this drive: > Iomega Ditto Max (Professional) > Model: IO 1000 - PX > > It has a parallel port interface. > > Included are a bunch of 5/10 Gig [uncompressed/compressed] tapes and > also a few 3.5/7 Gig [uncom/com] tapes. > > I was wondering if this would be usable under the FreeBSD? > > Version: > FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386 The vpo(4) manpage does not mention this device, but if it uses the same parallel-to-SCSI interface as one of the other Iomega products listed then it might work. vpo is not part of the default GENERIC kernel so you'd either need to load it as a module or build a custom kernel to include it. You'll also need scbus(4) and sa(4), but they are included in GENERIC. JN