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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Floppy tape device? Date: 15 Jun 1996 16:15:06 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4punia$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4om2a7$1j8@news.aimnet.com> <4ot16h$sv@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4p9ma1$jb8@dracula.hybrid.com> <4pc6cb$dsh@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4pkuum$5ii@dracula.hybrid.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E keng@hybrid.com (Ken Gaugler) wrote: (revamping the `ft' driver) > Sadly, I lack the necessary C programming experience under unix to do > this job myself. I am only interested in the floppy tape device for > my personal system at home; therefore it is not possible for me to > justify paying for a fully operational floppy tape driver. The problem is not the requirement of overwhelming C knowledge. The biggest problem is to redesign the ft driver into a clear structure (and most likely, to also redesign the fdc driver). Given the terrible command handling of QIC-80 drives, this is quickly going beyond the ``fun point'' for most people. It's therefore much better for them to spend a few bucks into a QIC-02 card and drive (for example), and hack something really useful instead of wasting several hundred hours just to build a driver that can handled inferior (by design) hardware. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)