From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 14 17:47:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA20618 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:47:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA20613 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:47:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA04569; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:47:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:47:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Rudy Gireyev cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LS-120 floppy drives In-Reply-To: <19971114221653.7462.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Rudy Gireyev wrote: > I was trying to avoid resubscribing to -hackers at any cost. > I figured maybe I can scrounge me up a victim, I mean volunteer, this > way. > Besides resubscribing to -hackers, though, I'm also very curious about > the need/interest from FBSD and users in those drives. I don't want > to go down this extremely looooong road, if there is no, or only > modest, interest. The investment is not only of time but money as well > and I have only seen three inquiries about it, archives and list > combined. > > P.S. And if I have to subscribe to -hackers that time investment > triples automatically :-) :-) I didn't say *subscribe* to -hackers, I said *contact* them. :-) Thankfully our Majordomo doesn't mutilate reply-to's so you'll get the majority of the replies, assuming another war doesn't ensue... I will say that we've had a few requests here for LS-120, and if you have access to the hardware & knowledge to do it, I'd say go for it. The robustness of the ATAPI interface code could use some testing from an outside source. I don't know how hot LS-120 will be, though, but anything you can contribute would be greatly appreciated. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major