On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, S.J. Borrill wrote:

> > You cannot do it under RiscBSD running on a RiscPC due to the speed of the
> > drivers unless you have a writer with a build in HD.
> 
> Does this affect DAT drives in the same way then or are they so slow that 
> it doesn't matter? If I get a SCSI tape drive, is /dev/rst0 functional?
> Any particular recommendations for tape drives?

tape drives work and /dev/rst0 is functional. The only problem is one of
speed. I tend to avoid tape as I have just had no end of problems with it
though exabyte and DLT are better ;-)

> Does mkisofs exists in a set? It's not in cdtools or in any of the other
> sets I've looked at.

No it builds pretty easily from the sources though.

> > I normally use mkisofs to generate images and then either single user
> > Linux (could use NetBSD as well) on a pentium or an SGI to write the
> > image.
> 
> How about an R260? :-)

hmm an R260 may be able to do it.

> > > Also, I see that ARM Linux has support for parallel Zip drives. Has there
> > > been any progress on parallel Zip drivers for RiscBSD?
> > No actual progress. I ahve really been waiting for NetBSD/i386 to do
> > something first as I thought the would be a driver for that by now.
> > I believe FreeBSD has a driver that could probably be adapted.
> 
> Would these drivers only allow you use msdos or could you put an ffs
> partitions on it?

Basically the zip will look like a disc device so for filesystems you have
the choice of ffs, lfs(broken), ext2fs, adosfs, iso9660, msdos, raw
tarring, dumps etc.etc. ;-)

Cheers,
				Mark