Subject: Re: Are DAT magazine changers supported?
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Laine Stump <laine@morningstar.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/24/1996 03:24:42
On Thu, 21 Mar 1996 23:23:02 GMT, Jason thorpe wrote:

> rdante@garlic.com (Richard Dante) wrote:

> > If I purchase a magazine autoloader DAT tape backup can I expect to be able
> > to use it with the existing SCSI driver under NetBSD 1.1?

>I'm not sure if the changer driver currently works, or not.  I know we 
>don't have the userland goo to manipulate the changer...

>However, a friend of mine here at work told me he'd been having trouble 
>with a new DAT changer he bought ... he can't get it to work under 
>FreeBSD, and asked if I'd help him...I told him "sure, if you let me make 
>it work under NetBSD, too" ... So, I'm supposed to be getting one of 
>these beasts in the next day or so, and will probably plug it into my 
>sparc at home and hack on it this weekend.

Is this the same stuff that will make SCSI CD changers work? The local
toy store has a stack of 2x SCSI 7 CD Changers for $99...