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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!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: HP Colorado support? Date: 18 Jan 1997 23:23:58 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5brm2e$35u@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <slrn5dpd95.n0.sbirn@softworx.netmedia.net.il> 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34214 sbirn@netmedia.net.il (Steve Birnbaum) wrote: > > Does FreeBSD support the HP Colorado backup device? > I know there's no IDE backup device support but the pc installer > tried to tell me the OS (at least winbloze) sees it as a floppy > device so I thought there might be a chance. > thanks... ``Sort of'' a floppy device. It uses the same slow data rate as a floppy, and a very weird command signalling protocol (which is actually a horrible abuse of the floppy controller). While FreeBSD has an `ft' driver, we all know that it's in a poor shaping, sorely seeking a maintainer. -- 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. ;-)