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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:140 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1281 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!eng.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!caen!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!sfu.ca!vanepp From: vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) Subject: Re: archive tape drives Message-ID: <vanepp.733710566@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada References: <1APR199313585902@scsud.ctstateu.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 00:29:26 GMT Lines: 20 karageorgiou@scsud.ctstateu.edu (GREEK & MACEDON,s THE ONLY VALID COMBO) writes: > The 5945C tape drive, is 1/4 inch drive,QIC-360. It will read >QIC-11,QIC-24. The full length card that comes with it is the 499 and although >it has a 50 pin connector it is not scsi. > So as soon as I get my 386 I will be trying it to see if it works with >386BSD. In order to use a 499 on 386bsd you need Dan Muntz's Archive driver (wt.c) added to the kernel. As it stands (on Agate.berkeley.edu for instance) it doesn't stream. Dan was good enough to forward me a modified driver that does stream (because he no longer has an Archive drive to test it). I don't know who modified it, and havn't been able to contact Dan to see if he can get permission to release it (and I won't release it without permission). So if the author of the code reads this, please post your driver since it works for me (I have dumped and restored a 200 meg BSD file system with it and the drive streamed through most of it). Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada