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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!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: Using External Tape Drive Date: 30 Apr 1996 07:19:50 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4m4eum$5k3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960426214932.1722A-100000@ucs.orst.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Dusty Reichwein <reichwej@ucs.orst.edu> writes: >I have an Iomega ditto Easy800 external tape drive. It connects to the >computer via the parallel port. Is there any way to use this drive >with FreeBSD 2.1 ? Is there anyway to use any parallel tape drive with >FreeBSD ? No. No. (Unless you volunteer to write and maintain a driver.) >Is there any way to access the FreeBSD file system under MS-DOS or windows. No. >If so I could just use the Windows software that came with the drive. >I suppose I could write a program to do this... You'll have a hard time. Buying a good ol' QIC-02 tape drive and adapter card is certainly cheaper (i think you'll get'em for less than US$ 150). -- 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. ;-)