From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 12 14:21:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA10015 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA09988 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:21:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA11119; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:20:59 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id XAA16501; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:05:09 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970912230509.AH32925@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:05:09 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers) Cc: jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee) Subject: Re: Floppy Driver Problem Solved :^> References: <19970912154815.HN39525@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Jamil J. Weatherbee on Sep 12, 1997 11:23:39 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > I think I will develop a floppy drive that uses a scsi interface! You love it to re-invent wheels? Almost everything except the PeeCee uses this kind of drives. Besides, what i've seen so far is slower than the plain FDC-based drives we are using. Besides^2, the SCSI interface doesn't prevent you from using bad media. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)