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From: smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM (Sherman Mui)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: [?] tape drives for FreeBSD
Date: 23 May 1994 03:46:15 GMT
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I was wondering how FreeBSD handles tape drives.
I've heard the Linux ftape sucks and makes backups really hard to do.

Can you mount tapes and just use it virtually as a normal drive?

	Thanks,
	Email would be appreciated,
	Sherman

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