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Date:      Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:05:15 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        dietz@cyrix.com (Carl Dietz)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ft (QIC 40/80)
Message-ID:  <199512091405.PAA27028@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <9512051742.AA13181@max.cyrix.com> from "Carl Dietz" at Dec 5, 95 11:42:25 am

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As Carl Dietz wrote:

> I only bought the thing because FreeBSD said it supported it, and I

So our docs should better say ``poorly supported''.

> can't afford to buy the SCSI DAT drive that I'd really love to have
> (pipe dream :-) ).

Did you ever think of buying a used QIC-150 SCSI streamer instead (or
perhaps even a non-SCSI QIC-02 one)?

> How exactly is the QIC 80 120MB floppy tape drive supported under FreeBSD ?

RTFM ft(8).

Hopefully, Joe Diehl won't give up and make this a fully-supported
driver some day... :-)

-- 
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. ;-)



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