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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
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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. ;-)