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Date:      Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:37:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mike Holling <myke@ees.com>
To:        "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us>
Cc:        Daren Sefcik <daren@rover.sefcik.cc>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Floppy Tape support gone from 3.0-STABLE?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9902012236230.23855-100000@phluffy.fks.bt>
In-Reply-To: <048a01be4e75$b58cdb40$d43de4cf@danco.home>

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> It's not that I think 250MB floppy tapes are the greatest thing, but I
> already had one. And since this is just an extra (read: obsolete in the
> Windoze world) PC so I could learn Unix, it seems a waste of money to buy a
> new tape drive.

Floppy tape support has been rotting for several years now.  Apparently
the driver code is truly awful because the device itself is truly awful.
I still have a 120M unit in my workstation also...

- Mike



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