Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 14:28:10 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Joel Sutton <suttonj@interconnect.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Driver for Colorado Jumbo 350 Floppy Tape Drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961208142553.3895E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961208162051.224A-100000@solsbury-hill.home>
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On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Joel Sutton wrote: > I have recently purchased and set up a Jumbo 350 tape drive on my FreeBSD > 2.1.5 machine without too much hastle but I am having trouble in that the > ft driver does not seem to recognize the geometry of my 170Mb tape. I get > part way through my backup and then the tape drive tries to wind the tape > on further than it can actually go, giving off a whole bunch of write > errors. What is the command line you're using? If you're using dump, you need to tune your B and b parameters (blocksize & blocks/tape) Floppy tapes are not well supported. The only ones that are is the QIC-40 and -80 compatible tape drives. > I have be searching through the mail archives and I have found references > to a new driver called "lft" which is (was?) being tested. Is it still > available? Where could I find a copy? Or perhaps it is going to be > included in 2.1.6??? It should be, although I haven't heard of any progress recently. It should be on freefall (ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/incoming). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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