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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Floppy tape support? Date: 9 Jul 1996 21:39:55 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4rujjb$5ho@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4rs13k$qdd@newsbf02.news.aol.com> 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 jsb007@aol.com (JSB 007) wrote: [Note that your article headers did reference an article you wasn't even following up to. If this was intentional, please learn how to operate in Usenet. If this was unintentional, please have your News software fixed.] > Has there been any progress lately on fixing 'ft' or porting Linux's > 'ftape' to FreeBSD? Somebody posted a new ft driver to the freebsd-hackers list lately. Search for Message-ID <199607012155.OAA18204@freefall.freebsd.org> (on the www.freebsd.org search engine) if you are interested. Speaking about ``porting Linux ftape...'' makes it only obvious that you don't know what you are talking about. Something like a floppy tape driver is nothing you could roughly port within a few weeks unless you tear it apart and make it fit into FreeBSD's FDC driver. > I know QIC 80 tapes are a poor backup choice but thousands of us have > them already and would like to use them. There's always the chance that you write your own driver if you have an urgent need and are dissatisfied with what other people gave to you. :-] -- 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. ;-)