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Date:      Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:09:22 -0800
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Richard Furda <riso@best.ca>
Cc:        FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Gerakines <steve2@genesis.nred.ma.us>
Subject:   Re: QIC 40/80 floppy tape drive controller
Message-ID:  <19991213190922.F358@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912111342060.44713-100000@daemon.best.ca>; from riso@best.ca on Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 01:50:46PM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912111342060.44713-100000@daemon.best.ca>

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On Saturday, 11 December 1999 at 13:50:46 -0800, Richard Furda wrote:
>
> 	Hello,
>
> I have a QIC 40/80 clone floppy tape drive controller (running
> 3.3-stable) and wondering if anyone is working/thinking about porting the
> ft driver to 3.X/4.X branch. I understand the driver was "removed"
> in 2.2.8 due to incompatibility issues. I'd like to help out, thus give
> access to a machine with the QIC 40/80 floppy tape controller.

I think one of the reasons this driver died was due to severe
performance limitations and lack of love.  If you can get it to work
acceptably under -CURRENT, I'm sure we'll find a way of getting it
back into the tree.  But you may find better things to do with your
time.

Greg
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