From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 6 08:25:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA14540 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 08:25:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aasis.albany-academy.org (80.albany-academy.org [205.181.13.80] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14533 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 08:25:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephea@aasis.albany-academy.org) Received: from localhost (stephea@localhost) by aasis.albany-academy.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA08438 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 11:38:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 11:38:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Abraham J. Stephens" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Colorado 120 QIC tape drives. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Could anyone provide instructions for backing up with a QIC 80 tape drive. > > how do I format tapes? then how do I use them? > > You shouldn't have to format the tapes, just pipe dump to /dev/rft and off > you go. > ft reports the error: tape is not formatted Insert ftfilt volume 0 and press enter: for devices /dev/ft0 and /dev/ft0a am I using the wrong device, dmesg.boot reports ft0 is the colorado tape? Any suggestions? Abraham J. Stephens DIRECTOR SIS stephea@aasis.albany-academy.org http://aasis.albany-academy.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message