Help yourself. The changes did get checked in, but maybe there are others out
there who have more time?

In terms of businesses 'dumping' NetBSD, I certainly haven't been contacted by
them.


-matt


On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 01:32:52PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> > The NetBSD driver could probably use the level of effort I put into the
> > FreeBSD driver- if not more. But, folks, I have a very limited amount of time
> > to spend on this these days (parenthood struck)- so don't expect *too* much.
> 
> Definitely.
> 
> This is a serious limitation with NetBSD.
> 
> If you cannot handle it, maybe we need to look for someone else.
> I have seen some businesses dump NetBSD because of tape driver issues.
> Some might be willing to fund a driver, I don't know.
> 
> Would it be worth building a small team (<4 people) to do the necessary
> work?
> 
> I've been wanting some things fixed for a long time now, and I've been in
> places where the tape driver was a show-stopper for NetBSD. Of course,
> ultimately there are choices available that don't hurt the project in
> question (FreeBSD, Linux, etc.) but it would be nice to see tape support
> in NetBSD match the others.
> 
> No doubt you are busy, but maybe you could just review the code done by
> someone else or a team?  You are a bottleneck right now, but maybe we
> could start asking for someone else to take over, or at least take the
> pressure off of you.
> 
> Just rambling for a bit... I'd like to do the work myself, but I lack
> the equipment and the know-how.
> 
> Question: outside of the QIC issues, how much work is involved in
> additions like block/file number counts and other status information
> that has been requested?
> 
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