From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 4 14:34:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00977 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 14:34:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00756 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 14:33:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA24040; Mon, 4 May 1998 14:33:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 14:33:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Jon C. Smith" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy Tape In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 3 May 1998, Jon C. Smith wrote: > Is there any particular reason floppy/IDE tapes are no longer supported? > Granted, they may pale in comparison to SCSI, but for some of us whom like > off BSD at home who don't feel the excess weight of wallet screaming to be > used on SCSI, I would think it should be our own choice to use. Floppy tape has this major problem of being largely proprietary -- we'd have to change the driver for *each drive* and most of us don't have that amount of time, and many companies aren't willing to give that info out. Plus floppy tape is **SLOW** and isn't being developed much anymore. IDE Tape just hasn't seen any support yet. I think some people are working on it. IDE tape is still pretty new. If you want to join these efforts contact hackers@freebsd.org. Asking with equipment-in-hand is usually helpful for testing. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message