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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!bradford.ac.uk!t.d.g.sandford From: t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk (Thomas Sandford) Subject: Re: floppy tape driver Message-ID: <1993Sep21.174219.15553@info.brad.ac.uk> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] References: <CDoo0z.L7r@genesis.nred.ma.us> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 93 17:42:19 BST Lines: 23 Steve Gerakines (steve2@genesis.nred.ma.us) wrote: : [ Missed the original post while the link has been down. ] : >>>M Foley says: : >>>Does anybody know if the floppy/tape driver source uploaded by Steve : >>>Gerakines on (or about) Sept 4 for 386bsd will work with the Colorado : >>>Jumbo tape drives? ... : I am using a Colorado Jumbo 250 attached directly to my floppy : controller. This driver should be what you need. As far as model names : go, Mountain manufactures the Summit drive, and Colorado makes the Jumbo. : Maybe someone could fill me in on some other compatible drive so I can : keep a list around. If I could get manufacturer and model ID#'s, I : can patch up the attach code to report the correct name instead of : guessing. has anyone ported this driver to NetBSD or FreeBSD yet (pref. NetBSD this week :-} ) I had a look but it seemed to have been created against an earlier incarnation of the floppy code than NetBSD-0.9. Also does it work with the Colorado DJ-10f (Jumbo 120MB drive) or only the 250MB drive? -- Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk