From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 25 13:57:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA11308 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 13:57:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA11303 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 13:57:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA04073; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 13:54:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704252054.NAA04073@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Maintainer of ft/lft To: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 13:54:16 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199704252020.NAA21394@seagull.rtd.com> from "Don Yuniskis" at Apr 25, 97 01:20:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > If so, I withdrawl the aspersion, and would be *very* happy to know > > where you got the documentation. I would probably even be willing > > to work on a driver for the IOmega tape drive, if you have a source > > for the technical documents not under non-disclosure; seeing as it's > > also QIC-117 and they are standard, it should be easy to write with > > QIC-117 documentation available. > > The standards are "free for the asking". I'll dig up the contact > address if you'd like. > > Biggest problem with the QIC stuff is that there are too many > "standards". Also, it has to cooperate with the ft driver and > allowing them to be active concurrently is a nuisance (though > I think desirable). What? A QIC-117 device is a QIC-117 device is a QIC-117 device is the argument that's been going on. If it *is*, then it doesn't have to "cooperate" with anything... it *is* the replacement for the ft driver. Conversely, if cooperation is required, then a QIC-117 drive is *not* a QIC-117 drive is *not* a QIC-117 drive (which is what I was chewed out for claiming). If I can't have one driver per standard, then it's not a standard. I was under the impression that it was being claimed to be a standard; if so, the bogusness of the current ft/lft driver in FreeBSD derice from it being logically incomplete, not from any fault of the manufacturer. As I said before, if this is the case, I will personally go buy the IOmega version of the cruddy on-SCSI hardware to let me hack on the driver, as long as I can get documentation without signing non-disclosure and making it impossible to hand off the driver and never look at it again. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.