From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 7 13:11:52 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA03919 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 13:11:52 -0800 Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA03910 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 13:11:46 -0800 Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0tCvIz-0009Z7C; Tue, 7 Nov 95 13:11 PST Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 13:11:40 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby To: Joe Diehl cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Insight ft tape drive In-Reply-To: <199511072036.OAA28249@bilbo.me.ksu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 7 Nov 1995, Joe Diehl wrote: > Hello all! > > I rescently started maintaining the ft driver and had a question for > all of you. Do you use, or know anyone who uses an Insight tape drive? > > Or more generally, anyone that needs the flag 1 in order for their > tape drive to be probed successfully? > > Thanks > Wow, finally someone maintaining the ft driver! Good luck! Actually, I had been planning for a while to try to port the Linux FTAPE driver over to FreeBSD because it has much better support for different devices and doesn't require a user-mode hack program like "ft" to do half the work. The problem right now is that you can't store multiple archives on a tape and use a command like "mt" to position the head at a certain one, just having this support would make a world of difference. Also, I don't think the current driver works very well with the DC2120XL 170MB extended-length tapes, and I'm positive it won't like the new 400MB Travan tapes. Just adding this support would be nice. Let me know if you'd like to work on this (porting FTAPE or just fixing our existing driver) as a team. ---Jake