From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Dec 14 23:11:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (mojave.lemis.com [192.109.197.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F9EC1533D for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:11:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00526; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:09:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:09:22 -0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Richard Furda Cc: FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Gerakines Subject: Re: QIC 40/80 floppy tape drive controller Message-ID: <19991213190922.F358@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from riso@best.ca on Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 01:50:46PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 11 December 1999 at 13:50:46 -0800, Richard Furda wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a QIC 40/80 clone floppy tape drive controller (running > 3.3-stable) and wondering if anyone is working/thinking about porting the > ft driver to 3.X/4.X branch. I understand the driver was "removed" > in 2.2.8 due to incompatibility issues. I'd like to help out, thus give > access to a machine with the QIC 40/80 floppy tape controller. I think one of the reasons this driver died was due to severe performance limitations and lack of love. If you can get it to work acceptably under -CURRENT, I'm sure we'll find a way of getting it back into the tree. But you may find better things to do with your time. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message