From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 2 1:18:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 516BA37B4EC for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 01:18:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f129HHM57122; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 04:17:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.0.1.4.0.20010202040716.01f2b3d0@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.1 Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 04:10:42 -0500 To: Soren Schmidt From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: ast0: TAPE Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200102020808.JAA74472@freebsd.dk> References: <5.0.1.4.0.20010201213224.02e8e2e0@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:08 AM 2/2/01 +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: >Well, as I said, supporting it is not impossible, its just "different" >from the way most *ix drivers like things. However if this is important >to you or somebody else, I could be persuaded into looking at this... I differ to your judgement of course. If the drive is hopelessly broken from a design point of view, then there does not seem to be much point in supporting it. But if it can work to a reasonable degree, then I am all for it. Like I said before, its potentially low cost combined with their claimed reliability of their media over travan tape technology do make it potentially appealing for certain applications. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message