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Date:      Tue, 17 Jan 95 9:19:42 MST
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        babb@sedhps01.mdc.com, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.sax.de
Subject:   Re: Colorado 250 Tape Drive
Message-ID:  <9501171619.AA26694@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <22874.790355283@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 17, 95 07:08:03 am

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> > I think the number of people with working tape drives far outnumber the
> > number of people with broken floppy drives,  so the logic of the flag 
> > should be inverted, such that you set the flag to *disable* the probe.

[ ... ]

> I suggested this just a couple of days ago and got no comments back..
> Unless somebody pipes up soon, I will indeed do this for 2.1

I haven't heard the results since the floppy tape was moved to ft2; do
people still get hangs?

Which is more important for install, a guaranteed working floppy, or a
conveniently already working floppy tape?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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