Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 09:38:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: markb@chartway.com Subject: Re: Tape Backup Message-ID: <199604260738.JAA04946@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604260018.RAA25990@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 25, 96 05:18:13 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > In addition, since this means that the device is currently > unsopported, it is unlikely that anyone else in the BSD camps > has one available for testing and/or deriver writing to help > you out, which would pretty much put you on your own. ...and given that even three developers by now have already been pissed of by the terrible floppy-tape handling _via the well- documented FDC_ (ok, comparably well-documented), i doubt anybody is going to burn his time and wrestle his brain in such a device. (People like me coming from a hardware background distrust anything hanging off a Centronics-style port that is not a printer anyway. This interface has not been designed with high-speed data communications in mind, at least not the ``classical'' Centronics port.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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