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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Archive SC499 tape-drive controller/drive Message-ID: <1994Jan18.211835.17804@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 References: <wilko.758896330@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 21:18:35 GMT Lines: 30 Wilko Bulte (wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl) wrote: : stark!gene@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) writes: : : >Following up to my own earlier posting on this thread, I forgot to mention : >that I there were some fairly substantial patches to the wt driver that : : >/* : > * Streamer tape driver for 386bsd and FreeBSD. : > * Supports Archive and Wangtek compatible QIC-02/QIC-36 boards. : > * : > * Copyright (C) 1993 by: : > * Sergey Ryzhkov <sir@kiae.su> : > * Serge Vakulenko <vak@zebub.msk.su> : > * : > * Version 1.2, Mon Nov 1 18:25:53 MSK 1993 : : : Maybe that someone with easy access to freebsd.cdrom.com can check : whether these patches are in the current tree? It would be nice : to have it in the upcoming 1.1 (?) release. : : We wanted to get rid of patchkits, didn't we ? ;-) ;-) : : Wilko : FreeBSD -current as of Jan 10,94 has Version 1.3, thurs Nov 11 It also has a rcs id by wollman marking it as wt.c,v 1.5 12/19/93. So I would assume that it is up to date. It works fine for me though tar is somewhat slow. I haven't tried dump on it yet.