From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 27 23:23:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA01546 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 23:23:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail (root@wormhole.map.com [204.71.19.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA01540 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 23:23:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: From: "Roland Jay Roberts" To: "FreeBSD Questions" , "Terry Lambert" Date: Sun, 28 Jul 96 02:24:07 -0400 Reply-To: "Roland Jay Roberts" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Roland Roberts's Registered PMMail 1.51 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD and DASH Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Jul 1996 14:19:53 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert wrote: >> I hope someone with some experience would improve the floppy tape >> support in FreeBSD, since there are a number of us with floppy tape >> units. They may not be as good as SCSI, but they are in-expensive >> and generally trouble-free. > >Nevertheless, you should probably download the "lft" alpha; it >fixes most the the "ft" problems. > >If you don't know where to get it, you probaly aren't following >-hackers or -current, and it may not run on your kernel. lft does work, though I've a feeling that the 2.1.5 kernel will be nicer to it than the 2.0.5 one is. I get alot of "ft0: [input|output] timeout" messages when accessing the tape drive. // Roland Jay Roberts - Team OS/2 - // Internet: jay@map.com // FidoNet: Roland Roberts @ 1:321/305.5