Date: Sun, 28 Jul 96 02:24:07 -0400 From: "Roland Jay Roberts" <jay@map.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Terry Lambert" <terry@lambert.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and DASH Message-ID: <m0ukPIt-003uXIC@mail>
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On Fri, 12 Jul 1996 14:19:53 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert wrote: >> 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. > >Nevertheless, you should probably download the "lft" alpha; it >fixes most the the "ft" problems. > >If you don't know where to get it, you probaly aren't following >-hackers or -current, and it may not run on your kernel. lft does work, though I've a feeling that the 2.1.5 kernel will be nicer to it than the 2.0.5 one is. I get alot of "ft0: [input|output] timeout" messages when accessing the tape drive. // Roland Jay Roberts - Team OS/2 - // Internet: jay@map.com // FidoNet: Roland Roberts @ 1:321/305.5
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