Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 17:42:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Babler <dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems with ft Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960629173054.8449A-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com>
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I am at least temporarily saddled with having to use a Colorado QIC-80 drive for backup. The tape is recognized correctly on boot and the driver has the 'flags 1' setting, but whenever I try to tar to ft, I get hundreds of: fdc0: input ready timeout fdc0: output ready timeout This, even though tar does actually work and I can compare and restore from the resultant tape. I also tried using dump with ft... and got a pretty weird result. I tried dumping to /dev/ft0 and dump *looked* like it was working, and chugged dutifully away - while the tape never moved an inch. At the end of the dump, it said it was done and was successful, though I have no idea where it thought it was putting the data. (I assume /dev/ft0 is essentially the same as /dev/null) My questions are: are the timeouts telling me something I need to worry about and/or change, and can ft be used with anything besides tar to do backups? I'm currently running 2.1-STABLE, though I'm under the impression the ft driver hasn't changed in eons. The computer is a 486DX2-66 with 16MB of RAM and a 500MB Maxtor, and the Colorado tape is connected to the normal floppy controller (an all-in-one VLB controller). -Dave
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