From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 2 15:41:55 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA06981 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jan 1995 15:41:55 -0800 Received: from isc.sjsu.edu (sparta.SJSU.EDU [130.65.3.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA06975 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 1995 15:41:54 -0800 Received: by isc.sjsu.edu (4.1/25-eef) id AA17524; Mon, 2 Jan 95 15:40:44 PST Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 15:40:43 -0800 (PST) From: Sherman F Mui Subject: Re: floppy tape backup, how? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 2 Jan 1995, Sherman F Mui wrote: > I guess I'm supposed to use dump to do these backups, but shouldn't this > thing work anyway? Hi, me again (yay), I tried dump, it paniced again: dump 0usfd 400 /dev/ft0 43690 /dev/sd0a And it locks up all of my input devices (mouse & keyboard), I didn't notice that before. I thought maybe something wasn't right with the tape drive. So I tried out the software it came with in windoze, and it verified that it was a QIC-80 format and did a test write to my tape. Also, whenever I put in the tape for the first time, it does something (i can hear the tape). But I guess that's just the hardware doing that by itself. Sherman