Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:33:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kelly Smith <ksmith@khsnet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floppy tape support Message-ID: <19981012093317.G24503@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199810111412.VAA21542@mozart.inet.co.th>; from Kelly Smith on Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 09:11:18PM %2B0700 References: <199810111412.VAA21542@mozart.inet.co.th>
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On Sunday, 11 October 1998 at 21:11:18 +0700, Kelly Smith wrote: > searching the archives about this brings up a number of enquiries about > support for floppy tapes, eg TR3. > > The stock response always seems to be not supported, but never any > indication that support may or may not be added at some time, is being > worked on or is even on a very long list of things being considered. > > do i take this to mean that there is no plan to ever support these, or at > least no plan to support them within the next year or so? I think that's a reasonable assumption. The general feeling in the developer community is that they're unreliable devices, and the last thing anybody wants is an unreliable backup system, so nobody is interested in integrating them. The fact that they're not really designed to work in a multiuser environment just adds to that. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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