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From: steve2@genesis.nred.ma.us
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: floppy tape driver
Message-ID: <CDtL5E.DA6@genesis.nred.ma.us>
Date: 23 Sep 93 18:39:13 GMT
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>: I am using a Colorado Jumbo 250 attached directly to my floppy
>: controller.

>has anyone ported this driver to NetBSD or FreeBSD yet (pref. NetBSD this 
>week :-} )

There were some patches posted that should work for NetBSD, but I
can't verify that.  I am going to move to the new floppy driver, but
I can't seem to find pk0.2.4 ...  Anyone know where it is?  Is it just
pk0.2.3 plus the 10000 and 90000 series stuff, or is it a completely
new kit?

If some kind soul would volunteer to "ftfilt" the FreeBSD and XFree86
distribution on tape for me instead, I would compensate/appreciate
greatly.  :-)  My partitions are all set up, so I just basically need
a tar up of the entire tree.

>I had a look but it seemed to have been created against an earlier
>incarnation of the floppy code than NetBSD-0.9. Also does it work with the 
>Colorado DJ-10f (Jumbo 120MB drive) or only the 250MB drive?

The driver should work with either the 250Mb (QIC-80) or 120Mb (QIC-40)
drives.

Good luck,
- Steve
steve2@genesis.nred.ma.us