From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 2 09:51:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11881 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:51:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp1.xs4all.nl (smtp1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA11872 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:51:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from berend@pobox.com) Received: from auke.nederware.nl (nederware.nl [194.109.55.62]) by smtp1.xs4all.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA13452 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:51:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from bmach (bmach.nederware.nl [192.168.33.3]) by auke.nederware.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA00655 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:46:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from berend@pobox.com) From: "Berend de Boer" To: Subject: RE: Floppy Tape support gone from 3.0-STABLE? Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:46:04 +0100 Message-ID: <007301be4ed3$e7e40920$0321a8c0@bmach.nederware.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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... That could be, but I'm using it reasonably fine here. The code isn't that bad, the biggest problem is that it does not look like a real tape device to the system. Groetjes, Berend. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message