From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 6:45:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inetminas.estaminas.com.br (inetminas.estaminas.com.br [200.251.191.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D753837B42C for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:45:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from p24tamd5x86 (nas5-9.estaminas.com.br [200.251.35.201]) by inetminas.estaminas.com.br (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA06325 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:45:09 -0300 (GMT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000922104605.0079f340@uai.com.br> X-Sender: pamplona@uai.com.br X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:46:05 -0300 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Gustavo Pamplona Subject: QIC-80 Floppy Tape Drive Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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