Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:46:05 -0300 From: Gustavo Pamplona <pamplona@uai.com.br> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: QIC-80 Floppy Tape Drive Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000922104605.0079f340@uai.com.br>
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Hi. (Sorry for my English, I'm a brazilian) My name is Gustavo Pamplona and... I have a floppy tape drive from Colorado Memory Systems. The model is Colorado Jumbo 250 MB Floppy Tape Drive, for use with QIC-80 FloppyTapes of 250 Megabytes. I intend to use it with FreeBSD. How could I use it with the "ft" device driver and if possible: - Is the drive supported by FreeBSD ? - Can I use the program "mt" to control the tape? - Can you point to me other backup software to use with it? I heard of Amanda. I see two devices 'wfd0' and 'wst0' at LINT kernel configuration file, but I can't understood right if only the fdc0 is necessary to control the Floppy Tape. Well, as I see, (perhaps my english is bad) wfd0 is a device to control IDE floppy drive and wst0 is to control IDE tape drive. When I try to use # mt -f /dev/ft0 retension --> to try to retension the tape. Give me a error of "device not configured" And I also have a FAQ from freebsd.org that teach me how to configure a floppy tape drive. I think is this. Below of controller fdc0 controller fdc0 ...blah, blah, blah. disk fd0 at... disk fd1 tape ft0 at fdc0... drive 2 Is it correct to do this configuration? Where is the error? I think is "drive 2" 'cause I don't have no floppy drives connected to my Floppy Disk Controller, just the Colorado Jumbo. But I tried to change to "drive 0", but I can't get no answer from the drive, just again "device not configured I don't no references from LINT and GENERIC Config Files speaking about of: tape ft0 ... Of course, the /dev/rft0 and /dev/ft0 was created by # sh MAKEDEV ft0 And if have a member of this mailling list that have Linux, how can I use it with Linux. Anybody could help me? Thanks and Regard's To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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