From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 18 21:42:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA06221 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 21:42:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from four20.acid.org (h112.value.net [205.162.63.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA06213 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 21:42:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (murray@localhost) by four20.acid.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA08862 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 21:44:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 04:44:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Murray Stokely To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: parallel port tape drives Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk How do you setup external tape drives that use the parallel port? I see entries in LINT for scsi, ide/atapi, and floppy. I checked the mt(1) man page and when I try 'mt -f /dev/rwt0 erase' I get a 'device not configured' error. I checked the handbook and found no information on parallel drives, seems like everyone uses the more expensive SCSI ones. I also checked the newsgroup archives at Dejanews and found nothing. The FAQ seems to specifically omit parallel tape drives when talking about what kinds work, does this mean theres absolutely no way to get one working? Murray Stokely