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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to use DAT and MO in FreeBSD? Date: 25 Nov 1995 10:35:13 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <496rh1$37b@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <491an3$ebk@news.ncu.edu.tw> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 ynchen@dslab.ee.ncu.edu.tw (Chen Ying-Nan) writes: > > Does FreeBSD support DAT and MO? > If it supports these devices, Which device drivers can I use and How to > config the system configuration file? Both are supported. DAT is just a SCSI tape, it's covered by the "st" driver of the base system and will be recognized if you boot the system with the drive connected. (If there are no other tape drives, it will be "st0".) MOs are supported by the regular disk driver in the base system. Starting with FreeBSD-current (i.e., the 2.2 track), there's a special driver that intents to handle the specifics of removable-media devices (such as MOs, but also Syquest or Zip drives) better. It has been contributed by Shunsuke Akiyama and is called "od". A snapshot patch for bringing the driver into 2.1 can be found under /xperimnt. It cannot handle media with sector sizes != 512 though. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)