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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to use DAT and MO in FreeBSD?
Date: 24 Nov 1995 10:09:36 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <491an3$ebk@news.ncu.edu.tw>,
Chen Ying-Nan <ynchen@dslab.ee.ncu.edu.tw> wrote:
>
>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?
DAT is "just another tape," so use rst0
(read man 4 st)
mo is in 2.2 (-current)
many mo drives can be told to pretend to be regular disks
I think, so maybe that is an option till you can get the mo driver.
(may need to make a new kernel)

julian