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Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 10:18:13 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
Cc:        Al Senin <al@tigris.ru>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Exabyte Eagle TR-3 
Message-ID:  <3779.926497093@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 May 1999 04:09:34 EDT." <19990512040934.A27975@netmonger.net> 

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In message <19990512040934.A27975@netmonger.net>, Christopher Masto writes:
>On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 01:37:16PM +0600, Al Senin wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Does anybody have an ideas about how to install Exabyte Eagle TR-3
>> tape drive with FDD interface under FreeBSD?
>
>Yes.
>
>Give up.
>
>The floppy tape system needs serious work.  I was hoping to do this
>work at one point, but every aspect of it is a serious pain in the
>ass.  I suspect that now that IDE tape is an option for those on a
>non-SCSI budget, there's a good chance that nobody will ever update
>the floppy tape stuff.

And atapi tapes are much faster than floppy tapes anyway...

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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