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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!ns.saard.net!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Germany.EU.net!ruhr.de!acme1.ruhr.de!chris From: Christoph Haas <chris@acme1.ruhr.de> Subject: Re: IOMEGA tapes X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: chris@acme1.ruhr.de (Christoph Haas) Lines: 15 Organization: private BSD site, Witten Message-ID: <87vibsme3o.fsf@acme1.ruhr.de> References: <32709756.1282@soncom.com> <54vt5b$pqf@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 19:44:27 GMT j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > > Pat Sonnek <psonnek@soncom.com> wrote: > > > Does free bsd support (well) any of the tape drives made by IOMEGA, they > > have some new ones out that come with thier own i/o card. I was > > wondering if FreeBSD will be able to make backups using these drives > > If they come with an own IO card, stay away from them. You should even stay away from them if they don't need a special io card. I was not able to use these drives (iomega ditto 800). They are not recognized by the kernel. Go and get a dat streamer. -- Christoph Haas chris@acme1.ruhr.de "If you are not somebody@somewhere.com, you are nobody." - Bob Frankenberg