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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Conner Floppy Tape
Date: 29 Jun 1995 12:03:00 +0200
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serges <serges@rocket.cc.umr.edu> wrote:
>Maybe this is why my Conner floppy tape is practically useless.
>
>Im running FBSD2.05 and have had limited success with the ft driver.
>Comming from from a SCSI tape background, I wasnt ready for the strange
>behavior that these drives exhibit.
They are cheap since software has to do where real tape drives have it
done in hardware (firmware). If you're coming from a SCSI tape
background, yeah, well, go and get one... :-/
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)