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Date:      Sun, 07 Sep 1997 08:19:53 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@tri-lakes.net>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tape geometries for the floppy-tape driver 
Message-ID:  <6437.873613193@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Sep 1997 20:44:47 -0000." <XFMail.970906205147.cdillon@tri-lakes.net> 

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In message <XFMail.970906205147.cdillon@tri-lakes.net>, Chris Dillon writes:
>
>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?

By all means go for it!  We'd be more than happy of you breath a little
life into this driver!

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."



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