From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 3:35: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD8C637B9DF for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 03:35:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bduk@earthlink.net) Received: from earthlink.net (sdn-ar-003orportP242.dialsprint.net [63.178.68.132]) by merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA15212; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 03:35:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bduk@localhost) by earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA08993; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 03:35:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bduk) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 03:35:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200004121035.DAA08993@earthlink.net> From: Derrick Baumer To: mj@isy.liu.se Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Micke Josefsson on Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:10:16 +0200 (CEST)) Subject: Re: Is FTape broken? Reply-To: bduk@earthlink.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ) From: Micke Josefsson ) ) On 11-Apr-00 Derrick Baumer wrote: ) > I have a (very) old Conner SuperStore 800<-(I think) QIC-80 tape ) > drive. It has served me faithfully under Windows, Linux, and even ) > FreeBSD<-(about 5 years ago). For the life of me, I cannot get it ) > to work now. ) ) I believe ft-stuff has been removed since 3.0. You could try a ) websearch for Mark Hannon och ftape, he had made a patch for it, but ) I cant for my life remember the webaddress:( That makes sense and I will look for the site. I wonder if anybody can tell me why the ft program is still part of the base installation, though, and why the kernel still recognizes the ftape options and why the ft* devices are still available in /dev/MAKEDEV? -- Derrick Baumer - Black Duck Software To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message