From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 7 21:44:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA25606 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 21:44:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (news@haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA25597 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 21:44:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.8.4/8.8.2) id NAA04189 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 13:44:32 +0800 (WST) X-Authentication-Warning: haywire.DIALix.COM: news set sender to usenet-request@haywire.dialix.com using -f Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 04:27:18 GMT From: mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Message-ID: Organization: Private FreeBSD site References: Subject: Re: Floppy tape backup Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article , keithl@wakko.gil.net (Keith Leonard) writes: > Howdy, > > I've seen this posted before and watched closely for answer - no see. Does > a body have a hope in hell if they have a tape backup that connects > through a floppy controller. I have a Conner 850 and have been trying to > use tar and dump through 'ft' and keep getting "fdc0 input timeout" and > "fdc0 output timeout" and occasionally actually see the tape drive respond > but no write or worst still 'write error'. > I would recommend that you use QIC80 tapes in the drive and see if it works. I have a Conner420R but it will only work with standard QIC80 tapes and not with the QIC-wide style tapes. Rgds/Mark -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD, Free Unix for your PC | mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+