Subject: Re: floppy controller tape devices To: Gerald C.
Simmons <> From: Rob Healey <> List: current-users Date:
11/24/1997 10:08:39 > Thanks for the re-focus. ;^)  (No more
CRAP) > Actually, I've looked into the FreeBSD support of the
floppy tape deives. > It's been in their a long time and is
fairly integrated into fd.c.  As I > said before, I'm a hardware
guy, and even trying to compare FreeBSD's fd.c > and NetBSD's
fd.c, I got well in over my head. Device drivers for Un*x or >
any OS, are not like tweaking inn or tin or even XFree86 and
getting them to > run.          Begin soapbox rant:          One
thing not mentioned in the long "crap" thread, as near as I
can tell, is that ALOT of the discussions on the current list
are x86 specific, i.e. I run NetBSD/Amiga and NetBSD/sparc and
couldn't care less about what does or doesn't run on x86, alpha
vax, powerpc and such and I'm sure there are others who couldn't
care less if something runs on amiga or sparc. What we ALL care
about         is time taken away from the machin