Removing vpo driver

[Bob Bishop]

Hi,

> On 28 Jan 2020, at 00:56, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Unless there's a concrete objection, and some indication it has been used
> in FreeBSD 12 or later, I plan on removing it after FOSDEM sometime.
> 
> This driver is for the ZIP100 drive (the 100MB floppy) connected via a
> parallel port. This hasn't been relevant for 20 years since the industry
> has moved on. The umass driver supports the USB version of the ZIP100 drive
> and I used last summer to recover a dozen zip discs for a friend. This
> provides a migration path for those that may need it for $15-$25 on ebay
> depending on your luck.
> 
> Given the lack of changes to this drive, and the massive changes in the
> system since it was written, I'd be greatly surprised if it still worked on
> relevant hardware.
> 
> Comments?

No objection here.

FWIW the SCSI-connected ZIP100 drive should still work also (got one, haven’t tried it recently).

> Warner
> 
> P.S.  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23389 has the proposed changes.
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