From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Sep 6 18:52:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA18214 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 18:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bob.tri-lakes.net ([207.3.81.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA18202 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 18:52:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [207.3.81.149] by bob.tri-lakes.net (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id pa267217 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 20:52:30 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <16639.873521732@time.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 06 Sep 1997 20:44:47 -0000 (GMT) From: Chris Dillon To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: Tape geometries for the floppy-tape driver Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 06-Sep-97 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> I notice that FreeBSD's ft driver has been stagnant for some time. I > >This driver has been, in fact, abandoned. > > Jordan I see.. That would explain the situation. :) But with the new proliferance of floppy-based tape devices (IDE too, but I won't go there..), wouldn't it be wise for *someone* to try and keep it just a little up to date? I am going to try (cross fingers) my best to add some tape geometries to that table (gonna have to read the source to find out what all those fields are, i guess.. unless someone is kind enough to tell me) and test them out. Would there be any problems with someone submitting the changes if I do so? --- Chris Dillon --- cdillon@tri-lakes.net --- Powered by FreeBSD, the best free OS on the planet ---- (http://www.freebsd.org)