Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 23:08:50 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jbryant@server.iadfw.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: ANy one useing ft driver under 2.0 current??? Message-ID: <199503222208.XAA15485@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <8291.795889321@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 22, 95 08:22:01 am
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > ... All told, it's one of those parts of our system that I'd > quality as a "trouble spot" - something that needs to be ripped out > screaming by the roots and essentially reimplemented (or at least > rengineered). ...but not for 2.1. For a post-2.1 system, i'd suggest to implement the whole fdc/fd/ft mess more rational, something like separate fd and ft drivers layered on top of a shared fdc driver. Btw., the current picture does horribly fail if someone wants to config(8)ure a floppy tape device without also having a floppy disk drive. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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