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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.announce:580 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5002 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!agate!usenet From: christie@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Chris Tham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Announcing a NetBSD-1.0 QIC-40/80 tape device driver Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc Date: 22 Jan 1995 17:08:15 -0800 Organization: Information Services, Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia Lines: 17 Sender: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu Approved: 386bsd-announce-request@agate.berkeley.edu Message-ID: <D2sIvL.3zn@ucc.su.OZ.AU> NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu I am about to post the sources to a (hopefully working) QIC-40/80 tape device driver to comp.os.386bsd.development. The driver has been tested on NetBSD-1.0 but should hopefully also work on NetBSD-current. It attaches to the fdc driver, hence some changes are necessary to the NetBSD fdc/fd driver, but these changes are very minimal. QIC-40/80 tape drives are drives that attach to a floppy disk controller. My driver is called ft, and is heavily borrowed/stolen/adapted from the FreeBSD 2.0 ft driver written by Steve Gerakines. Please try it and let me know whether it works for you. I can now (safely?) back up my filesystems onto tape! christie P.S. I'll post it twice, as a shar file and also as a uuencoded tar.gz file.