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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: OK, next question.  IOMEGA Easy accelerator board
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:16:48 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199608280131.LAA09658@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 28, 96 11:01:39 am
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Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> Jaye Mathisen stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > Anybody know what kind of boards these IOMEGA tape drive boards are, and
> > the level of complexity in writing a driver for them?  These little backup
> > tape units are great under win95, but of course, I want FreeBSD.
> > 
> > It appears to be a floppy disk controller, but apparently runs at a faster
> > rate than the standard FDC.
> 
> Then I would guess that it's a floppy-disk controller (or at least something
> rather similar).  
> 
> There was a post a little while back (from JMB?) about someone having 
> written a new control program for the 'ft' device which was supposed to be
> better than its predecessor. 

its called lft.
you can get a copy from ftp://freefall.freebsd.org:/pub/incoming

> 
> Note that nobody in their right mind uses those stupid floppytape devices,
> as they're basically impossible to talk to without busy-waiting on them.