From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 9 08:01:16 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA28767 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 08:01:16 -0800 (PST) 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 IAA28728 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 08:00:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA00360; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 16:58:19 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA25243; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 16:58:18 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA27028; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:05:16 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512091405.PAA27028@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ft (QIC 40/80) To: dietz@cyrix.com (Carl Dietz) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:05:15 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9512051742.AA13181@max.cyrix.com> from "Carl Dietz" at Dec 5, 95 11:42:25 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)