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Subject: Re: Replacement for Colorado Tape Drive?
To: ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (Annelise Anderson)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 18:07:24 -0800 (PST)
From: "Mark Smith" <msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <01HZQFG5091K009KS7@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> from "Annelise Anderson" at Jan 7, 96 03:43:38 pm
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> I've got a Colorado 250 tape drive on a system on which I've just
> installed FreeBSD 2.1.  The drive is recognized with the bootup
> message ft0: Colorado tape.
> 
> When I try to use it I get the message "device not configured."
> 
> E.g., /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind  produces this message, and
> I get the same message if I substitute rft0 or ft0 for rst0.


You don't mount the floppy tape device.  What you do is check out the 
man page for ft.  You end up doing something like:

tar -cvzf - / | ft "description"

That should do the trick.

Mark

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