From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 7 08:46:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA14804 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 08:46:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kendra.ne.mediaone.net (kendra.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.94.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14799 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 08:46:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from software@kew.com) Received: from sonata.hh.kew.com (root@sonata-dmz.hh.kew.com [192.168.205.1]) by kendra.ne.mediaone.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA26918; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 11:46:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from kew.com (minerva.hh.kew.com [192.168.203.144]) by sonata.hh.kew.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA03999; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 11:46:27 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36BDC362.2891F288@kew.com> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 11:46:26 -0500 From: Drew Derbyshire Organization: Kendra Electronic Wonderworks, Stoneham, MA 02180 (http://www.kew.com) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Masto CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: You bring the hacker, I'll send the hardware (was Re: Floppy Tape Driver) References: <87718.918332733@critter.freebsd.dk> <19990207001623.A14051@netmonger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have both a an Eagle TR-3 and an old Mountain QIC80 drive which I could donate to someone stupid^h^h^h^h^hbrave enough to revive the FT driver. I can even send along a few tapes for each. I personally gave up and went Exabyte SCSI. Christopher Masto wrote: > I have an Exabyte Eagle TR-3 drive, and I had a look at the floppy > tape situation a while back. The driver is.. well.. inadequate. It > makes a lot of assumptions that are quite a few years incorrect. But > they're probably still needed if someone has those old drives. New > drives come in all sorts of configurations and can be queried for the > correct parameters, among other differences. Also, it's weirdly split > into kernel and user-level parts, and makes no attempt whatsoever to > pretend to be a "proper" Unix tape. > > I was going to fix all of this a while back, and I still have the pile > of documentation on how floppy tape works. I think I planned to write > a standard QIC header at the beginning of the tape and fake up > SCSI-like behavior (end of file marks, etc.). Hackers have bizzare > motivations sometimes, and my motivation for this project was to back > up my machine so I could install it anew. Unfortunately, it's now > been so long that I really have to reinstall _before_ I'd want to > start on such a thing. And I'm not sure I care anymore. I certainly > don't have the free time for some time to come. > -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9812 Harris's Lament: All the good ones are taken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message