From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 5 03:55:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id DAA19433 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 03:55:12 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA19401 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 03:54:33 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA11897; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 12:51:09 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA23344; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 12:51:07 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA00984; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 12:14:00 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509051014.MAA00984@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: QIC-80 tape driver sucks.. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 12:14:00 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: from "Jake Hamby" at Sep 4, 95 11:39:08 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1149 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jake Hamby wrote: > > Upgrade to SCSI. Floppy tape is fundamentally broken and unfixable. > If I had $600-$700 to spend I would probably have bought a DAT or 8mm SCSI > drive, but I thought it would be much more economical (since this computer > is for home use and my backup needs aren't that great) to stick with a > floppy tape backup since it only cost $170. Did you ever consider buying a used QIC-150 drive? They are rock-solid, only somewhat more expensive than this cr*ppy QIC-40/80 stuff, and might suffice for most ``home computer'' sites. > Don't blame the hardware for FreeBSD's lack of driver support. Linux > supported my QIC-80 drive just fine. As soon as I analyze Linux's FTAPE > and the existing broken FreeBSD drivers, I'll try to come up with a > better solution, and if I do, I'll be happy to maintain it for the > FreeBSD team. I'll keep everyone posted... Many have been there, many have done that, all resigned. :-( We greatly appreciate your offer to maintain it! -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)