From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 23 23:34:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E50EB37B422 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:34:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 95EB2328C; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 22:58:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC3E328B; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 22:58:09 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 22:58:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Duke Normandin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: QIC-80 Floppy Tape Drive [IS NOT POSSIBLE TO USE THIS DRIVE,WHY NOT? IF OLDER UN*X SYSTEMS SUPPORTED IT. I CAN'T UNDERSTAND. In-Reply-To: <00bd01c025c7$fce416e0$27e973d1@odie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > If you need it that badly... it sounds like you're volunteering to > >fix it... :) Or pay to have it fixed. > > > Do you have any sense -- of what changes are needed to the relevant > driver -- "ft" I take it -- to have it be functional for 3.3R -> ? > I also have one of these beasts and would like to use it with FBSD. > As well, how does "ftape" figure into all of this, or is it the same > as "ft"? Tia.... Out of my area of expertise... but you may want to ask on -hackers, or take a look at the source code to see what it's doing. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message