Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 18:36:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: tbuswell@bio.bu.edu (Theodore Buswell) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ftape resources? Message-ID: <199610100136.SAA28103@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199610100119.VAA02069@bio.bu.edu> from "Theodore Buswell" at Oct 9, 96 09:19:34 pm
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Theodore Buswell wrote: > > > 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. plesae get lft from ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/incoming/ lft.tar.gz.uu > > 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... > ft is not being developed. it may be replaced with lft jmb
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