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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Floppy Tape Drive with 2.1.0?? Date: 1 Nov 1996 23:00:19 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <55dve3$n3l@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <54o85c$253@walt.ee.pdx.edu> <54vue7$pqf@uriah.heep.sax.de> <552rur$ht9@walt.ee.pdx.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 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu (Dave Roethig) wrote: > : Floppy tape support is a little weak. What kind of drive do you have? > : It's most likely unsupported. > > > It's a HP Colorado T1000. > > There is only one floopy drive in the machine. Does it need to > have two drives to see the floppy tape? No. But i'm afraid the T1000 is too modern to be supported. The FreeBSD floppy tape support is really ancient, and nobody seems to be around who's remotely willing (and capable) of maintaining that driver. -- 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. ;-)