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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Subject: Re: Tape Backup 
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers), markb@chartway.com
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 10:28:40 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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: ...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.

I know that the Linux folks have a driver for the parallel version of
the zip drive.  Basically, the parallel version of the zip drive has a
parallel port -> scsi adapter built into it, but still costs the same
or a little less than the pure scsi version.  Go figure.

If people are wanting something like this on FreeBSD, they might do
well to take a look at the Linux drivers.  I have no clude if they are
sane, insane, documented or not.  I just know that some Linux work
that I've done prompts me for this interface now :-)

Warner