From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 6 11:07:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12153 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 11:07:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12139 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 11:07:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA10719; Wed, 6 May 1998 11:06:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 11:06:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Abraham J. Stephens" cc: 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 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