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Date:      Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:13:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Roland Jay Roberts <jay@map.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and DASH
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960712231249.829E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <m0ueBpL-003uWdC@mail>

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On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Roland Jay Roberts wrote:

> >Won't happen.  It's a floppy tape (with or without the Ditto Dash) and 
> >those aren't supported (except for the old QIC-40/80s).  
> 
> I hope someone with some experience would improve the floppy tape support in FreeBSD, since 
> there are a number of us with floppy tape units.  They may not be as good as SCSI, but they 
> are in-expensive and generally trouble-free.

Actually, hope may be in sight.  Someone is testing a new floppy tape 
driver in -current.  It works great for a Colorado Jumbo 250, who knows 
about other hardware, but it's a start.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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