Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:26:42 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <thomas.beer@de.pwcglobal.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Message-ID: <005701c12c5d$5bb73ac0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <OF32B600B1.450D2EBD-ON41256AB1.00326D66@ema.pwcinternal.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of >thomas.beer@de.pwcglobal.com >Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 2:12 AM >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: > > >Hi, > >the handbook states > >FreeBSD supports SCSI, QIC-02 and QIC-40/80 (Floppy based) tape drives. Ugh - the handbook as a mistake, floppy controller tapedrive support went away due to lack of interest from anyone wanting to work on it. QIC-O2 support is provided by the wt driver. >This includes 8-mm (aka Exabyte) and DAT drives. >The QIC-40/80 drives are known to be slow. > >Does this mean, that _all_ SCSI tape drives are supported Basically yes. But it depends on what you mean by support. Tape Changers for example, well there's programs that can control the tape selector, but not every changer will work with them. Other similarly esoteric features of some SCSI tapedrives may not be supported either. >AFAIK the last should be true, but I couldn't find an information >about which drives >are supported... > Any tapedrive that's SCSI-2 is most likely going to work fine, and even the most common SCSI-1 drives are supported. (some SCSI-1 tapedrives didn't completely or properly implement all SCSI sequential media commands) Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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