From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 30 21:12:26 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA13239 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 21:12:26 -0800 Received: from herman.tiac.net (herman.tiac.net [199.3.131.153]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA13233 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 21:12:20 -0800 Received: (from emb@localhost) by herman.tiac.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id QAA03711; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 16:39:10 GMT Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 16:39:09 +0000 () From: "Eric M. Busalacchi" To: Joerg Wunsch cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Colorado Jumbo Tape In-Reply-To: <199503301629.SAA03608@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 30 Mar 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > As DAVIDE TOME' wrote: > > > > How can I use my Colorado Jumbo Tape (QIC 80) to backup FreeBSD ?? > > I mean ..... what kind of software is better to make it work ? > > There's currently only one piece of software that acutally makes it > work: the `ft' program. It's an input/output filter for the floppy > tapes. > > You perhaps need to enable the `ft' line in the kernel config file, > and rebuild a new kernel. My floppy tape hasn't been recognised by the kernel in months.. Ever since I did my first sup, about 4 months ago. If I want to use the drive, I have to reboot with the original kernel that came with the 2.0 distribution.. *shrug* -- Eric M. Busalacchi emb@herman.tiac.net - Big brother is watching the net..