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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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