From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 1 22:38:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA20226 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:38:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phluffy.fks.bt (net25-cust199.pdx.wantweb.net [24.236.25.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA20217 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:38:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myke@ees.com) Received: from localhost (myke@localhost) by phluffy.fks.bt (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA28897; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:37:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myke@ees.com) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:37:28 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Holling X-Sender: myke@phluffy.fks.bt To: "Dan O'Connor" cc: Daren Sefcik , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy Tape support gone from 3.0-STABLE? In-Reply-To: <048a01be4e75$b58cdb40$d43de4cf@danco.home> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It's not that I think 250MB floppy tapes are the greatest thing, but I > already had one. And since this is just an extra (read: obsolete in the > Windoze world) PC so I could learn Unix, it seems a waste of money to buy a > new tape drive. Floppy tape support has been rotting for several years now. Apparently the driver code is truly awful because the device itself is truly awful. I still have a 120M unit in my workstation also... - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message