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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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