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Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:28:27 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        jbryant@server.iadfw.net
Cc:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with 2940 and 950210snap
Message-ID:  <199503212328.AAA05866@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199503212146.PAA23793@server.iadfw.net> from "jbryant@server.iadfw.net" at Mar 21, 95 03:46:52 pm

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As jbryant@server.iadfw.net wrote:
> 
> In reply:
> > Subject: Re: Problems with 2940 and 950210snap 
> > Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 11:27:12 -0800
> > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
> > 
> > > Actually, there are three tape commands mt, st, and ft.  If st is
> > > eliminated on historical grounds, then ft should also suffer the same
> > > fate.
> > 
> > Wrong.  mt & st are control commands.  ft should vanish into the device
> > driver itself.
> 
> Exactly what do you mean by that?  I have been hacking a FULLY QIC compat 
> backup/restore [i.e., QIC-40/80, and 113 style filesets] program for some 
> time now for FreeBSD.  Would such a change in any way effect my work?

IMHO it were better hacking the ft driver doing read/write/strategy IO.

-- 
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. ;-)



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