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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!nigel.msen.com!math.fu-berlin.de!fub46!gusw From: gusw@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Gunther Shadow) Subject: Tape w/o SCSI -- need general advice ... Message-ID: <70ALBL2E@math.fu-berlin.de> Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department) Nntp-Posting-Host: fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 10:17:31 GMT Lines: 25 Hi all, I have a 486DX/33 AT-Bus box running FreeBSD. Now I want to by a tape drive. I scanned the FAQ and the compatible tape drive list, but none of them seems to answer my general questions: What tape drive alternatives are there if I don't have a SCSI driver, and how do they work? I've heard of a method used in PCs, where tapes are pluged into the floppy driver. Some do this with a special Y-adaptor, so that they can use a tape and *two* floppy drives. This is, what I want to do sometime. But I intuitively don't trust that kind of hack, so I like to be reassured/warned by you. Do you use such a solution (under *BSD)? Is it well supported by the drivers or are there any unexpected interactions between tape and floppies? Do I have full functionality by that method (format, read, write ...)? Are there tape drives which use an extra adaptor card, so that they can savely be used under *BSD? Thank you very much for your help -Gunther PS: Please reply by mail, I'll post a summary later. And please, if you know them, give the prices in your answers.