From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 21:16:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA16548 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:16:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (rsamuel@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.9.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA16523 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:16:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (rsamuel@localhost) by yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (8.6.4/8.6.4) id QAA25115 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:16:04 +1100 From: Richard Samuel Message-Id: <199601170516.QAA25115@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> Subject: Would you find these things useful ? To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:16:01 +1100 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk First let me say: I'm not worthy ... I'm not worthy ... Good, now that I've got that off my chest, would you find either of these contributions of value: 1) A Sanyo CD-Rom driver. Works fine, speed is reasonable, no sound support ( I reckon if you want sound, buy a walkman ). 2) An upgraded 'ft' program for QIC-80 tape. Allows multiple volumes per tape. Colorado Backup for Win/DOS created volumes can co-reside on the tape. Bypasses seek error in device driver. Doesn't support volumes spanning tapes yet, but will the moment I need to backup something that big. If you find either/both of these items to be useful contributions I would be pleased to do so provided someone tells me how. Also some advice on how to word a boilerplate, since the error-correction for the tape program is that of the original 'ft'. Richard Samuel School of Engineering Monash University - Caulfield Australia