>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?

As far as I know, there is no support for any of the various floppy
controller based tape drives in NetBSD nor has anyone on the kernel
team expressed any interest in developing any.

Max