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From: steve2@genesis.nred.ma.us (Steve Gerakines)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: A case for QIC-80
Keywords: QIC-80
Message-ID: <CEn9r5.4oF@genesis.nred.ma.us>
Date: 9 Oct 93 19:21:03 GMT
References: <kaxiras.749938489@cs.wisc.edu> <293rjj$q73@bmerha64.bnr.ca>
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In article <293rjj$q73@bmerha64.bnr.ca>, Mark Lord <mlord@bnr.ca> wrote:
>In article <kaxiras.749938489@cs.wisc.edu> kaxiras@falcons.cs.wisc.edu writes:
>>
>>Just write up something that can be used to install BSD -and other
>>software -from QIC-80 minicatridges.
>Interestingly enough, the software to do this already exists!
>There exists an item of DOS software that can read/write a block disk partition
>as if it were one big DOS file, so all that would need to be done is for
>someone to do a full BSD install, and then boot DOS from floppy and backup
>the BSD drive/partition to tape using any convenient DOS tape backup program.
I released a QIC-40/80 tape driver for 386BSD about a month ago. Included
in the last release was a program called "ftfilt", which allows you to
use tar to back up your system. I've been backing up my system with it
for quite some time, so you shouldn't have to resort to DOS to back up
your system anymore. If there's a problem with the driver, I'd sure
like to hear about it. The feedback I've gotten from it has been pretty
underwhelming.
I am currently working on a program called "qtar" which will allow you to
create/extract any QIC-40/80 format tapes. Also, I've decided to upgrade
my system to FreeBSD (after much debate), so support for the new floppy
driver will be in the next release.
Last, did anyone archive the driver? Dave Burgess was handling this
for me a while back, but he said he had to give up the space. If someone
could do this for me (I don't have ftp access currently) I'd appreciate it.
P.S. To Mark Foley:
I am getting your messages, but my replies are bouncing. :-(
- Steve
steve2@genesis.nred.ma.us