Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 11:46:26 -0500 From: Drew Derbyshire <software@kew.com> To: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: You bring the hacker, I'll send the hardware (was Re: Floppy Tape Driver) Message-ID: <36BDC362.2891F288@kew.com> References: <XFMail.990206121008.wwoods@cybcon.com> <87718.918332733@critter.freebsd.dk> <19990207001623.A14051@netmonger.net>
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I have both a an Eagle TR-3 and an old Mountain QIC80 drive which I could donate to someone stupid^h^h^h^h^hbrave enough to revive the FT driver. I can even send along a few tapes for each. I personally gave up and went Exabyte SCSI. Christopher Masto wrote: > I have an Exabyte Eagle TR-3 drive, and I had a look at the floppy > tape situation a while back. The driver is.. well.. inadequate. It > makes a lot of assumptions that are quite a few years incorrect. But > they're probably still needed if someone has those old drives. New > drives come in all sorts of configurations and can be queried for the > correct parameters, among other differences. Also, it's weirdly split > into kernel and user-level parts, and makes no attempt whatsoever to > pretend to be a "proper" Unix tape. > > I was going to fix all of this a while back, and I still have the pile > of documentation on how floppy tape works. I think I planned to write > a standard QIC header at the beginning of the tape and fake up > SCSI-like behavior (end of file marks, etc.). Hackers have bizzare > motivations sometimes, and my motivation for this project was to back > up my machine so I could install it anew. Unfortunately, it's now > been so long that I really have to reinstall _before_ I'd want to > start on such a thing. And I'm not sure I care anymore. I certainly > don't have the free time for some time to come. > -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9812 Harris's Lament: All the good ones are taken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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