From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 22 14:26:17 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA17118 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 14:26:17 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA17106 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 14:25:35 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA03372; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 23:21:26 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id XAA17959; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 23:21:26 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA15485; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 23:08:50 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503222208.XAA15485@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ANy one useing ft driver under 2.0 current??? To: jbryant@server.iadfw.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 23:08:50 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <8291.795889321@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 22, 95 08:22:01 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 725 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > ... All told, it's one of those parts of our system that I'd > quality as a "trouble spot" - something that needs to be ripped out > screaming by the roots and essentially reimplemented (or at least > rengineered). ...but not for 2.1. For a post-2.1 system, i'd suggest to implement the whole fdc/fd/ft mess more rational, something like separate fd and ft drivers layered on top of a shared fdc driver. Btw., the current picture does horribly fail if someone wants to config(8)ure a floppy tape device without also having a floppy disk drive. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)