Re: QIC ft0 driver support in 4.0-CURRENT gone?

1999-10-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jacques Vidrine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have one (colorado thing). I _will not_ adopt it :-) but I'd happily send it to a committer that wanted to support it. I haven't used it in years, but AFAIK it still works. I have an old Conner drive and three 40MB tapes which I will happily

Re: QIC ft0 driver support in 4.0-CURRENT gone?

1999-10-16 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On [19991016 04:00], jack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Today Julian Elischer wrote: hey If someone did adopt it then it wouldn't be a problem.. if no-on edoes then it can remain 'unsupported' unsupported != tucked away in the attic, out of reach of many/most users. Current != platform for

Re: QIC ft0 driver support in 4.0-CURRENT gone?

1999-10-16 Thread jack
Today Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: On [19991016 04:00], jack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Today Julian Elischer wrote: hey If someone did adopt it then it wouldn't be a problem.. if no-on edoes then it can remain 'unsupported' unsupported != tucked away in the attic, out of reach of

Re: QIC ft0 driver support in 4.0-CURRENT gone?

1999-10-15 Thread Mike Smith
Sorry if I ask a FAQ, Don't be sorry, don't do it. Search the mailing list archives. But where is ft0 support gone? Into the bitbucket. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and

Re: QIC ft0 driver support in 4.0-CURRENT gone?

1999-10-15 Thread jack
Today Mike Smith wrote: Sorry if I ask a FAQ, Don't be sorry, don't do it. Search the mailing list archives. It might help if HARDWARE.TXT (both -current and -stable) didn't list floppy tapes. It refers to the driver as "stale" rather than gone.

Re: QIC ft0 driver support in 4.0-CURRENT gone?

1999-10-15 Thread Julian Elischer
the driver could come back if someone who HAD such a device were to adopt it.. On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, jack wrote: Today Mike Smith wrote: Sorry if I ask a FAQ, Don't be sorry, don't do it. Search the mailing list archives. It might help if HARDWARE.TXT (both -current and

Re: QIC ft0 driver support in 4.0-CURRENT gone?

1999-10-15 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:20:54 -0700 (PDT), Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: the driver could come back if someone who HAD such a device were to adopt it.. Probably not. The hardware is just so transcendently evil that it's unlikely it could be made to work reliably for more than one or