Peter Seebach drunkenly mumbled...
> 
> I don't recall seeing these discussed before.  I got one of these as
> a cheap way to preserve the important things I do on the Windows side
> of my PC (game save files, mostly), but I was thinking it'd be cool to
> be able to write to these from NetBSD.  I have an iomega "ditto" internal
> tape drive.  It can store up to 800 MB per tape, which in my case proves
> to be 120... and it runs on the *floppy* controller, at an astounding
> maximum of 500kb/second.  (*bits*, not bytes.)

i don't know how useful it is, but you could always check out the FT drivers
for Linux which come in a seperate archive and are pretty much unrelated to
the kernel at this time (as far as i know, never really follow the FT stuff
when i used linux)

> While this is inarguably a fairly pathetic rate, it's better than
> using floppies, but I don't see any support.  How hard would this
> likely be?  Any interest?

honestly? i never got into the FT style drives as i thought them to be rather
goofy, plus i've been using SCSI for the last 6 years, so i tend to only deal
with SCSI devices. (don't even use IDE or EIDE)  but the FreeBSD and Linux FT
drivers would be a good place to start to try and get the thing working.

-brian

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