From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 01:09:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25962 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:09:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25804 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:08:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04054; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:16:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:16:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: John D Duncan cc: grg@bsd.philol.msu.ru, Grigoriy Strokin , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QIC tape drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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