From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 6 11:47:23 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15327 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:47:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15322 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:47:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA17790; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:39:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from s204m82.isp.whistle.com(207.76.204.82) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdo17782; Sat Feb 6 19:39:14 1999 Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:39:14 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer X-Sender: julian@s204m82.isp.whistle.com To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: wwoods@cybcon.com, FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Floppy Tape Driver..... In-Reply-To: <43133.918329234@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OR, get teh changes needed (that were removed) from the fd driver.. (you can find them using the CVS web-pages) and the correct files, and get it all working again.. One of the problems was that there was no-one that the intersecting set of developers who could maintain the driver, and people who had and used these devices was a null set. If this were to change (i.e. there wa an active maintainer, and users) then it could possibly be re-introduced, or at least made into a supported patch set.) julian On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , William Woods writes: > > >I just finished looking in LINT for "ft" the floppy tape device. Now I remember > >some discussion of this being removed a while ago, but I do not remember the > >outcome of this. I am running a -curent system and was wondering what I sue for > >a floppy tape driver. > > Save yourself the worry and trouble and buy an atapi tape instead... > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message