Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 14:33:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jon C. Smith" <jonsmith@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy Tape Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504143025.23827c-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980503010556.14049B-100000@fourier.physics.purdue.edu>
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On Sun, 3 May 1998, Jon C. Smith wrote: > Is there any particular reason floppy/IDE tapes are no longer supported? > Granted, they may pale in comparison to SCSI, but for some of us whom like > off BSD at home who don't feel the excess weight of wallet screaming to be > used on SCSI, I would think it should be our own choice to use. Floppy tape has this major problem of being largely proprietary -- we'd have to change the driver for *each drive* and most of us don't have that amount of time, and many companies aren't willing to give that info out. Plus floppy tape is **SLOW** and isn't being developed much anymore. IDE Tape just hasn't seen any support yet. I think some people are working on it. IDE tape is still pretty new. If you want to join these efforts contact hackers@freebsd.org. Asking with equipment-in-hand is usually helpful for testing. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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