Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 11:49:08 -0800 (PST) From: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Floppy Tape Driver..... Message-ID: <XFMail.990206114908.wwoods@cybcon.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902061135220.304-100000@s204m82.isp.whistle.com>
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So, basically I am screwed? On 06-Feb-99 Julian Elischer wrote: > 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 <XFMail.990206111841.wwoods@cybcon.com>, 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 >> ---------------------------------- E-Mail: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> Date: 06-Feb-99 / Time: 11:48:34 FreeBSD 4.0 -Current ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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