From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 4 06:53:45 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA04696 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 06:53:45 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA04671 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 06:53:18 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA06653; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 15:53:04 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA14613; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 15:53:04 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA24178; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 14:56:56 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509041256.OAA24178@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: QIC-80 tape driver sucks.. To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 14:56:56 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jake Hamby" at Sep 2, 95 08:03:46 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 881 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jake Hamby wrote: > > As soon as I can snag a copy of the ft(1) source as well as FTAPE (the > Linux floppy tape driver which DOES work with these tapes) I should be > able to hack it into submission. Actually I'd prefer to put floppy tape > support entirely in the kernel where it belongs (so I can use 'mt') but > I'm afraid I'm not a good enough kernel hacker for that. I'll post up to > this list when I've got a patch, but I'd like to know first if anyone has > already solved this problem? If you can come up with anything useable, submit it. Since apparently nobody of our current commiters team uses floppy tapes very much, it would be quite a good idea if you'd also sign _responsible_ for maintaining the driver... :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)