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From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: LS-120 floppy drives
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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Dang it!

I was trying to avoid resubscribing to -hackers at any cost.
I figured maybe I can scrounge me up a victim, I mean volunteer, this
way.
Besides resubscribing to -hackers, though, I'm also very curious about
the  need/interest from FBSD and users in those drives. I don't want
to go down this extremely looooong road, if there is no, or only
modest, interest. The investment is not only of time but money as well
and I have only seen three inquiries about it, archives and list
combined.

P.S. And if I have to subscribe to -hackers that time investment
triples automatically :-) :-)

---Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Rudy Gireyev wrote:
> 
> > I was actually considering writing such a driver, but I would need a
> > lot of help from the driver-masters. I guess I am trying to gage the
> > interst level in such a beast. Since I already know the pain level
on
> > my behalf will be high :-)
> 
> :-)  In that case contact hackers@freebsd.org and see if you can get
> someone to help you.  You'll have to get the hardware spec for the
> drive(s) you wish to support, but the ATAPI interface work has been
done
> for you.  
> 
> It would be a good example on how to program other ATAPI modules, ie
> tapes, ZIP/Jaz, etc....
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking
Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 
> 

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