Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 11:06:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Abraham J. Stephens" <stephea@aasis.albany-academy.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Colorado 120 QIC tape drives. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980506110355.10587L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980506112729.8372B-100000@aasis.albany-academy.org>
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On Wed, 6 May 1998, Abraham J. Stephens wrote: > > 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: I stand corrected, then. I don't use floppy tape (I have an unsupported 800MB rusting away at the moment) so I guess I need to check the manpage. Okay, checking out the ft(8) manpage you need to run it as follows: tar (or dump) ... | ftp "tape description" You must use preformatted tapes. I don't think there's a format command. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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