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From: spm@staff.cc.purdue.edu (Sean P McDermott)
Subject: Re: OOps, where is QIC-80 stuff?
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 22:42:45 GMT
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>>I lost where to get the QIC-80 drivers for NetBSD.  Could somebody
>>post/email the location of the actual drivers/code?
>
>The QIC-40/80 tape driver for *BSD is now available at ftp.gte.com in
>the ft directory.  The latest revision is v0.2 pl01.
>
>I just upgraded (successfully!) to FreeBSD epslion, so patches for
>this release including a couple of bug fixes will be coming soon.
>I'll be dropping support for the old floppy driver, so it should
>be more painless to install.
>


Will the new driver support NetBSD-0.9 ???

In your README.pl01 you state :

>       So far I have received (and so has the net) patches to get the
>       driver working with NetBSD 0.9, but I cannot confirm if these
>       work for everyone.

Where can these sources be found at ?  And will they be part of the new release ?
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Sean McDermott