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Date:      Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:16:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        John D Duncan <jddst19+@pitt.edu>
Cc:        grg@bsd.philol.msu.ru, Grigoriy Strokin <grg@philol.msu.ru>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: QIC tape drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980309001432.3844k-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96L.980307103736.19442B-100000@unixs-eval.cis.pitt.edu>

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On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, John D Duncan wrote:

> Why don't we see about providing the linux ftape driver
> in the gpl section of the kernel source? that tape
> driver is pretty thorough, and it does accelerator
> cards.

You only have to reprogram the thing pretty much from scratch to adapt to
the different kernel structure, work around our ``one giant bug'' floppy
driver, and then it pollutes the kernel source because it's GPL'd.  And
get a volunteer to do the porting, of course that can be yourself. :) 

> > > I don't know exactly the model number of my QIC drive,
> > > but it's also 250MB. Windows NT detects it as 'QIC-117'.
> > > Is it possible to use it in FreeBSD?
> > 
> > I would seriously doubt it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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