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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!anthony From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Writing a driver for QIC-40, floppy controller tape drives Message-ID: <1992Jul29.165413.20371@uwm.edu> Date: 29 Jul 92 16:54:13 GMT References: <19mma1m.hasty@netcom.com> <1408@sousa.ltn.dec.com> Sender: news@uwm.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 19 In article <1408@sousa.ltn.dec.com> paradis@sousa.ltn.dec.com (Jim Paradis) writes: >hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >Of course, this requires a nontrivial amount of free space on the >DOS partition, but it's better than nothing. > >(ps - I'm also looking into writing a QIC-40 driver... don't know how >I'll do, but we'll see....) Why not make a special 386BSD kernel designed to just do backups? Perhaps it could have a special single user mode just for backups. I've read that programs like dump shouldn't be used on an active filesystem anyway. I'm not sure even tar should be used except in single user mode either. For people that have two computers, one solution would be to do a network backup from the BSD box to the MS-DOS box with the tape drive. -- <-:(= Anthony Stieber anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony