From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 1 22:02:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA23393 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 22:02:40 -0800 Received: from generic.gnsnet.com (generic.dialup.inch.com [204.253.24.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA23384 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 22:02:35 -0800 Received: from flatline.gnsnet.com (flatline.gnsnet.com [193.195.19.35]) by generic.gnsnet.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA21352 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 00:57:41 GMT Received: (from trangmar@localhost) by flatline.gnsnet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA06841; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 00:59:16 -0500 Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 00:59:15 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Trangmar To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: ft (Qic 40/80) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Does anyone know why this this wasn't written as a *complete* tape driver? It would be really useful for me to have this as a device i could use dump and tar on and i am considering looking further into it with a view to enhancing it to do just that. Just thought i'd cast around to see if anyone had any input before i expended/wasted valuable time. Thanks in advance, RobT -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Trangmar trangmar@gnsnet.com NeXT Mail/Mime O.K Tel: (212) 7600225 Fax: (212) 6294314 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-