Date: Mon, 7 Aug 95 12:44:20 EDT From: tucker@meadow.mdso.vf.ge.com To: obrien@antares.aero.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Time to get serious Message-ID: <9508071644.AA12662@duke.meadow.mdso.vf.ge.com>
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> QIC-80 (at least through the floppy controller) is a > write-off as far as I can see. My Colorado 350 is useless > under FreeBSD but very reliable under DOS. Unfortunately > no one who has the Colorado 350 specs appears to have time > to get the FreeBSD driver up to snuff. > I can't say that I have the Colorado 350 specs (wish I did...); but I have come up with a hack to the ft.c source which works with my Colorado 350. I won't stand behind this hack 100%, but I did test it enough that I was fairly calm as I upgraded from 2.0 to 2.0.5 ;) As far as I can tell, the current ft code to detect tape length is already a hack, so I don't feel too bad about this modification... (NB: the resulting ft driver will only work for 425 foot QIC-80 tapes!!) ================================================================= /usr/src/sys/i386/isa> diff -e ft.c.orig ft.c 1852c /* sts |= (ext) ? QTS_LEN2 : QTS_LEN1; */ sts |= QTS_LEN3; /* force len == 3 */
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