Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 03:35:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Derrick Baumer <bduk@earthlink.net> To: mj@isy.liu.se Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FTape broken? Message-ID: <200004121035.DAA08993@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000411161016.mj@isy.liu.se> (message from Micke Josefsson on Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:10:16 %2B0200 (CEST))
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) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
)
) 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
<bduk@earthlink.net>
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