Subject: Re: floppy tape controllers
To: Daniel F. Dickinson <perrancan@yahoo.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/31/2000 15:04:31
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:48:15AM -0400, Daniel F. Dickinson wrote:
> I see no mention of floppy based tape drives on the lists of supported
> hardware. 
> Am I overlooking something or does it not exist?  I know that for linux
> (which is i386 specific) there is the ftape kernel module.  Is any of
> that code useable for figuring out NetBSD drivers or are the systems too
> different? (speaking as a newbie to device driver programming).  

No, there isn't any floppy tape support in NetBSD. I think freebsd has
a driver and you'd better starting from here,;the linux and NetBSD kernel
are really different.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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