Subject: Floppy controller tape drives...
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/10/1997 23:13:44
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.)

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?

-s