Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 21:19:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Theodore Buswell <tbuswell@bio.bu.edu> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Ftape resources? Message-ID: <199610100119.VAA02069@bio.bu.edu>
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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...
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