From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 26 00:46:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA20888 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 00:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA20883 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 00:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA14987; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 09:44:17 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA15534; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 09:44:17 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA04946; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 09:38:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604260738.JAA04946@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Tape Backup To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 09:38:31 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: markb@chartway.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604260018.RAA25990@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 25, 96 05:18:13 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > In addition, since this means that the device is currently > unsopported, it is unlikely that anyone else in the BSD camps > has one available for testing and/or deriver writing to help > you out, which would pretty much put you on your own. ...and given that even three developers by now have already been pissed of by the terrible floppy-tape handling _via the well- documented FDC_ (ok, comparably well-documented), i doubt anybody is going to burn his time and wrestle his brain in such a device. (People like me coming from a hardware background distrust anything hanging off a Centronics-style port that is not a printer anyway. This interface has not been designed with high-speed data communications in mind, at least not the ``classical'' Centronics port.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)