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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] ST01 SCSI controller + tape driver
Date: 06 Aug 1994 11:27:50 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu's message of 3 Aug 1994 15:39:23 GMT


In article <31odnb$fg3@masala.cc.uh.edu> wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody
Jin) writes:

   I have Seagate ST01 controller and would like to use it soly for
   the tape drive.

There is a ST0[12] driver available for both NetBSD and FreeBSD, but
even the original author indicated that it didn't work very well, and
my experience with it has very much affirmed that.  Eventually I'll
probably fix it.

--
- Charles Hannum
  NetBSD group
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