Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:03:59 -0500 (CDT) From: joed@ksu.edu To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maintainer of ft/lft Message-ID: <199704252203.RAA05661@abc> In-Reply-To: <199704251642.JAA03539@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 25, 97 09:42:01 am
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Do I need to go into the whole "VHS sucks, but it still won over Beta" > > > discussion again? > > > > QIC is QIC... interchangable... interoperable... do you have the > > standards documents? i do... > > Are these sufficient to write a driver that works with all QIC-117 > drives? > > If so, I withdrawl the aspersion, and would be *very* happy to know > where you got the documentation. I would probably even be willing > to work on a driver for the IOmega tape drive, if you have a source > for the technical documents not under non-disclosure; seeing as it's > also QIC-117 and they are standard, it should be easy to write with > QIC-117 documentation available. > >From the time I spent looking around in QIC-117 and related standards, there should be little problem with developing for QIC-80 revision c and up using the standards... QIC-3010, 3020, and 40 I'm not as sure about as I didn't spend as much time looking in those standards. I would do this myself if I had the time and resources, or I would do so. I don't have the contact information for getting the QIC standards readibly accessable, but I can go digging for it if someone wants me to --- Joe Diehl <joed@ksu.edu> PGP Key: finger joed@unix.ksu.edu
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