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From: chris@acme1.ruhr.de (Christoph Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: TRAVAN Floppytape Support ?
Date: 20 Jun 1996 19:58:02 +0200
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Hi,

I just bought an IOMega ditto 800 floppystreamer. I thought it was able 
to read and write QIC-80 tapes, but it can't be detected by the normal 
QIC-40/80 drivers that come with 2.1.0-STABLE. It seems that the streamer 
is not 100% compatible with other QIC-80 streamers, although there seems 
to be support for drives by IOMega (just took a quick look in 
/sys/i386/isa/ft.c). The drive is ok and it works fine under DOS, but the 
only REAL operating system can't find it. Can TRAVAN-drives be programmed 
the way we do it with "normal" QIC-40/80-drives ? Any suggestions or 
references to sourcecode or docs to read about how TRAVAN-drives work ?

TIA

	chris