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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Ftape resources?
To: tbuswell@bio.bu.edu (Theodore Buswell)
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 18:36:10 -0700 (PDT)
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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