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Date:      Mon, 28 Apr 1997 21:15:17 +0100
From:      Jim Chapman <jim.chapman@sympatico.ca>
To:        sutton@aardvark.apana.org.au
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Floppy Tapes
Message-ID:  <33650555.983@sympatico.ca>

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I have a Colorado T1000 tape drive with a QIC-80 tape in it. It seems to
be impossible to buy any floppy tape except one of the Travan ones here
in Toronto.

When I do a cold boot with a tape inserted the drive reads and rewinds
the tape as soon as the power comes on. Does this seem normal? When I
boot BSD it then detects FT0: Unknown tape. Once it detected a Colorado
tape but I can't reproduce that condition. When I do a warm boot or a
boot without a tape installed it never detects the drive.

I changed the fdc0 line in the kernel to add the flags keyword but it
didn't help.

Any help is appreciated. I am getting discouraged at not being able to
backup this system.

	Jim Chapman




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