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From: Theodore Buswell <tbuswell@bio.bu.edu>
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Subject: Ftape resources?
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Is there any information regarding use of floppy tape drives
under FreeBSD?  All I can find via 'man -k' is this 'ft' program.
But it doesn't seem to work.

Accessing /dev/ft0 using 'mt' and 'tar' always get me countless
errors.  'mt' for example always complains "Device not configured".

I think that part of the problem might be my h/w, but before
I go too far chasing this, I'd like to make sure that 'mt' should
perform as expected on /dev/ft0.

My drive is recognized as "Unknown" at boot.  Playing with
src/sys/i386/isa/ft.c I find that it responds to the Colorado set
of wakeups.

Any nods in the right direction ( or any direction at all, really) are
welcome.

Thanks,
-Ted

PS: The drive is an 400/800MB TEAC and I'm using 2.1.5
And I don't see anything in the revision history of ft.c that would
suggest active development...