Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 16:33:20 -0500 From: Lee Cremeans <lee@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wanton Atticizing is bad Message-ID: <19981227163320.A998@tidalwave.net> In-Reply-To: <68606.914783086@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 07:24:46PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812271249290.6613-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <68606.914783086@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 07:24:46PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812271249290.6613-100000@janus.syracuse.net>, Brian > Feldman writes: > >What was the reasoning behind ft though? > > It's badly implemented and many capable persons have failed to find a > way to solve the rather serious problems it suffers from. ATAPI tapes > seems to be the way of the future for cheap tapes. If ft were as nice as the SCSI tape driver, then I'd say keep it, but ft is extremely crocky (I know, I tried using it once) and very, _very_ slow since it has to use the floppy drive controller. Personally, I'd like PCs to be able to just get rid of the old uPD765/WD37C65-based FDC completely, and use ATAPI, USB, or SCSI floppies (like my ATAPI LS-120) and tapes, but I guess that's a few years off... -- lee, who's had his floppy-drive port turned off for at least a month now. -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Lee Cremeans -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet and WTnet)| | lcremean@tidalwave.net| http://st-lcremean.tidalwave.net | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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