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Subject: Using an IOMega Ditto Drive w/ FBSD 2.2*
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I recently installed an IOMega Ditto tape drive (1G/2G compressed) and have
not been able to get FBSD to work with it.
  Apparently, it does recognize it (dmesg), but any attempt to access the
drive through mt -f /dev/rft0 (or simply cat /dev/rft0) results in an error.
  It is a "floppy tape" which works fine in Win95, so the hardware is fine.
  In my kernel conf file, I have "tape  ft0  drive 2." (Drive 1 didn't work, it
just checked my floppy twice.

  Any help would be appreciated. Is there something I'm missing or am I just
out of luck?


Thanks,
    - drifter