Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:16:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: OK, next question. IOMEGA Easy accelerator board Message-ID: <199608281616.JAA10190@freefall.freebsd.org> 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.
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