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From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org>
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Subject: Re: QIC-80 Floppy Tapes
In-Reply-To: <199706301359.IAA04541@beowulf.utmb.edu> from "M. L. Dodson" at "Jun 30, 97 08:59:16 am"
To: bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu (M. L. Dodson)
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:54:26 -0400 (EDT)
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> Do yourself a favor and dump this floppy tape device.  It won't work worth
> a damn on any unix.  Any cheap, supported, (even PIO types) scsi controller 

Not true. Someone should port the Linux ftape driver to FreeBSD. It allows
100% access to floppy tape drives via device files.